Package 'browsr'

Generalized Search and Search Engine Examples

Description

Use these functions to search the web directly from your browser, building advanced queries and supplying common useful R related domains.

Query Github's internal search engine.

Query a search on rseek.org.

Query a search on the R Nabble Forum. Nabble is an innovative search engine for R messages.

Usage

search_online(s, query_url = "https://google.com/search?q=")

search_gh(
  s,
  type = "all",
  language = NULL,
  topic = NULL,
  user = NULL,
  org = NULL
)

search_rseek(s)

search_finzi(s)

search_nabble(s)

search_google(s)

search_rproject(s)

search_metacran(s)

Arguments

s	string to search for
query_url	string representing the URL to query; defaults to Google
type	what to search for, see details for options
language	optional language filter
topic	optional topic filter
user	optional user filter
org	optional org filter

Details

See https://cloud.r-project.org/search.html which showcases Google's advanced search feature to query only R-Project domain sites via the Google Search Engine.

Functions

• search_gh:

• search_rseek:

• search_finzi:

• search_nabble:

• search_google:

• search_rproject:

• search_metacran:

References

• http://www.sashagoodman.com/

• http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html

• http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search/manual.html#query

• https://cloud.r-project.org/search.html

• http://n4.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=31

Examples

library(browsr)
# default search on google
search_online("polished.tech")

# search github (note: &ref=opensearch)
search_online("polished", "https://github.com/search?q=%s&ref=opensearch")

# search Github with language:r, org:tychobra for 'polished' (note: '%3A' represents a ':')
search_online("polished", "https://github.com/search?q=%s+language%3Ar+org%3Atychobra")
search_gh("websocket", language = "r", topic = "rshiny")

# search your org
search_gh("polished", org = "tychobra")

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