From baron at psych.upenn.edu  Wed Sep  7 22:53:21 2016
From: baron at psych.upenn.edu (Jonathan Baron)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:53:21 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
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Spencer,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my site and
trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more than
one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also generate
errors.

My main contribution is figuring out how to extract the html help
files and vignettes only, with some help from R developers and Fedora
maintainers. Here is the trick, for someone who wants to do it:

m0 <- rownames(installed.packages())
m1 <- m0[which(m0 %in% needed.packages)]
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
update.packages(oldPkgs=m1,repos=biocinstallRepos())
update.packages(dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--html"),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
m3 <- new.packages()
install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--html"),repos=biocinstallRepos())

Note 1: The first 4 lines are designed to deal with a list of the
packages that you actually use. These can be eliminated if you don't
use R on the same machine. The last 3 lines are all you need.

Note 2: This works on Fedora, but I think that the Fedora maintainers
of R have set some defaults that are helpful.

Jon

On 09/07/16 15:41, Spencer Graves wrote:
>Hello, All:
>
>
>       Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the RSiteSearch database.
>
>
>       This breaks three things:  (1) The R Site Search web service that 
>Baron has maintained.  (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils 
>package.  (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead 
>author.
>
>
>       Might someone else be willing to take these over?
>
>
>       For me, the "findFn" capability with "writeFindFn2xls" is the 
>fastest literature search for anything statistical.  However, I don't 
>have the resources to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search 
>database.
>
>
>       He's provided a great service for the R community for many 
>years.  I hope we can find a way to keep the system maintained. Failing 
>that, I could use help in adapting the sos package to another database.
>
>
>       Thanks,
>       Spencer Graves
>
>
>-------- Forwarded Message --------
>Subject: 	Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
>Date: 	Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
>From: 	Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
>To: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
>CC: 	Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>, chris.is.fun at gmail.com, 
>info at datacamp.com <info at datacamp.com>, Sundar Dorai-Raj 
><sdorairaj at gmail.com>, webmaster at www.r-project-org
>
>
>
>R site search has stopped working. The indexing scrip, mknmz, failed
>to complete. It has been producing more and more errors and warnings,
>since it has not been updated for 5 yeaers.
>
>I am giving up on this site. I have too many other things to do aside
>from find bugs in programs written in languages I don't know (Perl),
>or set up an alternative search engine.
>
>Please inform anyone else who needs to be informed.
>
>I cannot find the email of the www.r-project.org webmaster, so I'm
>taking a stab. There are several links to this site in those pages.
>
>Jon
>-- 
>Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>

-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)



[Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
Jonathan Baron