From andy_liaw at merck.com  Wed Mar  8 03:15:18 2006
From: andy_liaw at merck.com (Liaw, Andy)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:15:18 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
> 
> On 7 March 2006 at 10:55, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> | I have given up on "R" with any topic on Google quite some time ago 
> | (because bits from fragmented postscript/pdf files show up, for 
> | example) - but using "r-devel" with topic normally gives me enough. 
> | YMMV.
> 
> Nobody seems to have mentioned the RSiteSearch() function 
> which automagically restrict the search to domains relevant 
> to the contect of "our" use of the letter R. I quite like 
> that as I tend to have an R prompt open when I am puzzled by 
> R questions ...

My guess is that people were hoping to find things outside of what Jon made
available or what's on or linked from www.r-project.org.  I believe that's
not going to be very productive (at least for now).  I don't think there's a
whole lot of things related to R that isn't found in those two places.

Andy
 
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[Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines ...
Liaw, Andy