Find information about R with Rseek.org

One of the great things about R is that there's a wealth of information about it available on the web.  On the downside, though, it can sometimes be tough to find. For one thing, "R" is a search term found on many websites, many not related to R the language. (Google actually handles this better than you might think: the first 5 sites currently returned by a Google search for R alone are all relevant to R.  The sixth is for the R subway line in New York City.)  For another, information about R can be found in many different places: The official R project site, CRAN (and its mirrors), the archives of the R mailing lists, the documentation of R itself, and even this blog.  As a result, searching for relevant information about R can sometimes be a chore.

Rseek.org makes it easy to search for information about R while filtering out those sites (like those for the New York Subway) that match "R" but don't contain the information you're looking for. It's just like a Google search, but restricts the search just to those sites known to contain information about R.  The list of sites searched is maintained by Rseek.org creator Sasha Goodman and a cadre of volunteers.

R Google Search: Rseek.org

Comments

[David Winsemius]

Searching Google for R related material is better done with the use of strings: r-project or r-help.

[David Smith]

True -- that serves to limit your search to CRAN and archives of r-help. But that's essentially what rseek.org does, except it also searches other sites relevant to R besides.