From edd at debian.org  Thu Sep  8 16:50:58 2016
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:50:58 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
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Jonathan,

FWIW I mentored a Google Summer of Code student (who was more than highly
self-sufficient and needed next to no help, apart from some small R packaging
tricks) as part of the Xapian project in order to write RXapian:

   https://github.com/amandaJayanetti/RXapian

which is an R interface to the Xapian index engine.

I don't know much about these indice generators, but Xapian [1] appears to be
free, open-source, current, maintained, powerful, and used.  From what I
gather you are still betting on an older (and as I seem to recall,
deprecated) technology. There may be more teers ahead.

The other tip would be to get in touch with Gabor who as part of r-hub has
indices for just about anything, and 9as he his a generation younger than
Spencer, you or me) also provides current (ie JSON over REST) interfaces.

Dirk

[1] https://xapian.org/

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[Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
Dirk Eddelbuettel