Other people like R Site Search (http://search.r-project.org/nmz.html), which is available via the standard R function "RSiteSearch".

For me, the fastest literature search on virtually anything statistical is the "findFn" function in the "sos" package. (Disclaimer: I'm the lead author of that package, so I may be biased.) "findFn" sorts search results to put the package with the most matches first. The print method opens a table of the results in a web browser with hot links to the individual matches. "sos" comes with a vignette, which includes an example of the "writeFindFn2xls" function. This writes a "findFn" object to an Excel file with two sheets: The second is all the matches found. The first is a summary of the packages found with extra information not available via RSiteSearch.


      Hope this helps.
      Spencer


On 11/22/2010 3:19 AM, Georg Otto wrote:
Alaios<ala...@yahoo.com>  writes:


Also when I try to search in google using for example the word R inside the 
search lemma I get very few results as the R confuses the search engine. When I 
was looking something in matlab ofcourse it was easier to get results as the 
search engine performs better.
What are your tricks when you want to find some function that provides some 
functionality?
To search R-specific sites the best place to go is this one:

http://www.rseek.org/

Cheers,

Georg

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