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The purpose of websearchr is to provide a convenient way of accessing domains and searching popular websites directly from the R console. When working on small screens in particular, switching from the R console to the browser window, opening a new tab, navigating to the desired website and finally searching for the search terms requires around 3-6 clicks. As one is working mainly in the R console, it is more convenient to start typing the search terms right away, without having to go through the process mentioned above. For example, stackoverflow("my r problem")
will open the Stackoverflow search for "my r problem" in a new browser tab automatically.
Currently supported websites:
Any other domain can be accessed with web("example.com")
. You can also simply open the search engine in the browser by not specifying a search term, e.g. using duckduckgo()
.
You can easily search for the last produced error or warning using last_error()
or last_warning()
inside one of the search functions, e.g. startpage(last_error())
.
Twitter and Wikipedia can be searched in different languages than English. For example, to search the French version of Wikipedia use wikipedia("Langage de programmation", "fr")
.
To use a browser other than the default on your computer use options(browser = "path to browser")
. For example, on macOS options(browser = "/usr/bin/open -a '/Applications/Safari.app'")
or Windows options(browser = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe")
. To check which browser is set as the default use getOption("browser")
.
You can install websearchr from CRAN with:
install.packages("websearchr")
Or install the development version from GitHub:
remotes::install_github("fschaffner/websearchr")
Please report issues or requests for additional functionality to https://github.com/fschaffner/websearchr/issues.
library("websearchr") # Try: web("r-project.org") google("my search terms") stackoverflow("my r problem")
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