help.search.web {svMisc}R Documentation

Search web documents about R and R functions

Description

Retrieve web documents, messages in R mailing lists, or wiki containing string.

Usage

    help.search.web(apropos, type = c("google", "archive", "wiki"))

Arguments

apropos The string to search
type The search engine, or location to use

Value

Returns TRUE invisibly (invoked for its side effect of opening the web browser with the search result)

Author(s)

David Forrest <drf@vims.edu> & Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean@sciviews.org> after Barry Rowland's original code, but see <http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?SearchFunctions>

See Also

help.search

Examples

    ## Not run: 
        help.search.web("volatility") # Google by default, may soon show Dr. Harrell's example
        help.search.web("volatility", type = "archive")  # In mailing list archive
        help.search.web("search", type = "wiki")
    
## End(Not run)

[Package svMisc version 0.9-5 Index]