How to search for "R" materials? [closed]

Question

http://rseek.org is a great search engine for R manuals, mailing lists, and various websites. It's a Google syndicated search app with specialized UI. I always use it.

An update, several years later

All the links you need are right here:

https://stackoverflow.com/tags/r/info

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This was discussed on the R-Help mailing list recently.

Some things mentioned there that haven't been covered here are:

1. Using the RSiteSearch function, and the package of the same name.

2. Using R-specific search engines. You mentioned RSeek and RSearch. You can also search the R mail archive, the help wiki, the task views, RForge, and Bioconductor among other places.

Most of the time I find googling for R plus my searching term works fine. When it doesn't, I'll try using "R project", or adding CRAN, statistic or language to the search.

Is there a particular topic that you're having problems searching for?

A new CRAN package is extremely helpful for this: check out the "sos" package.

I would just add, one great way to search for R script is to type your search term into google with "ext:r" at the end. This will return all files that have the R extension. For instance:

• If you wanted some high performance computing examples, this returns Russ Lenth's "R code used in Netflix analyses" from Luke Tierney and Kate Cowles "High Performance Computing in Statistics" course.
• If you wanted examples of bootstrapping, this returns many scripts, most of which look very relevant.

I usually do my basic R searches with "r-project" at the beginning, since most people who refer to R in any great detail will usually also reference the site.

Joining this discussion very late, but here is my preferred search string in Google: [R] followed by search string.

For example:

[R] lm finds several links to linear modelling in R

The reason this works is that StackOverflow uses the [r] tag, and the R mailing lists also use [R].