search the graph gallery from R

September 8, 2009

(This article was first published on Romain Francois, Professional R Enthusiast, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

This is a short code snippet that is motivated by this thread on r-help yesterday. The gallery contains a search engine textbox (top-right) that can be used to search for content in the website using either its internal crude search engine or perform a google search restricted to the gallery.

Here we write a small R function that can be used to take advantage of the search engine, from R

rgg.search <- function( topic, engine = c("Google", "RGG") ){

    engine <- match.arg( engine )
    url <- URLencode( sprintf( "http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/search.php?q=%s&engine=%s", topic, engine ) )
    browseURL( url )
}
rgg.search( "Andrews plot" )

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