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

[Spencer Graves]

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)


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