From hb at maths.lth.se  Wed Mar  8 15:00:24 2006
From: hb at maths.lth.se (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:00:24 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines
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On 3/8/06, roger bos <roger.bos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to
> buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since the
> user base was so large.  R has something better: CRAN.  It was really smart
> to make a central repository where useRs can share code.  No other language
> that I can think of really has an equivalent.  All I have to do it search
> CRAN and I can find 99% of what out there (I'm making a guess on the actual
> number here).

Don't forget, there's also life outside CRAN ;)

/Henrik

>
> Besides, I don't need to write bubble sort routines anymore because almost
> everything I need is already built into R.
>
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> On 3/7/06, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > > Dirk
> > >
> > > --
> > > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
> > >                                                   -- Thomas A. Edison
> > >
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