Package 'searcher'

Title: Query Search Interfaces
Description: Provides a search interface to look up terms on 'Google', 'Bing', 'DuckDuckGo', 'Startpage', 'Ecosia', 'rseek', 'Twitter', 'StackOverflow', 'RStudio Community', 'GitHub', and 'BitBucket'. Upon searching, a browser window will open with the aforementioned search results.
Authors: James Balamuta [aut, cre] , Alex Rossell Hayes [ctb]
Maintainer: James Balamuta <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 0.0.7
Built: 2024-09-18 02:19:55 UTC
Source: https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/searcher

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searcher: Query Search Interfaces

Description

Provides a search interface to look up terms on 'Google', 'Bing', 'DuckDuckGo', 'Startpage', 'Ecosia', 'rseek', 'Twitter', 'StackOverflow', 'RStudio Community', 'GitHub', and 'BitBucket'. Upon searching, a browser window will open with the aforementioned search results.

Package Customizations

searcher accesses a set of default values stored in options() on each call to keep the function signatures small. By default, these options are given as:

  • searcher.launch_delay: Amount of time to remain in R before opening a browser window. Default is 0.5 seconds.

  • searcher.use_rstudio_viewer: Display search results in the RStudio viewer pane instead of a web browser. Default is FALSE.

  • searcher.default_keyword: Suffix keyword to generate accurate results between either "base" or "tidyverse". Default is "base".

  • ...

Author(s)

Maintainer: James Balamuta [email protected] (ORCID)

Other contributors:

See Also

Useful links:

Search a Query on a Search Portal in a Web Browser

Description

Creates an appropriate query string for a search engine and then opens up the resulting page in a web browser.

Usage

search_site(
  query,
  site = c("google", "bing", "duckduckgo", "ddg", "startpage", "sp", "qwant", "rseek",
    "rstudio community", "rscom", "twitter", "stackoverflow", "so", "github", "gh",
    "grep", "bitbucket", "bb"),
  rlang = TRUE
)

search_google(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_bing(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_duckduckgo(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_ddg(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_ixquick(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_startpage(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_sp(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_ecosia(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_rseek(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_qwant(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_rstudio_community(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_rscom(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_twitter(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_stackoverflow(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_so(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_github(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_gh(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_grep(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_bitbucket(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

search_bb(query = geterrmessage(), rlang = TRUE)

Arguments

query

Contents of string to search. Default is the error message.
site

Name of site to search on. Supported options: "google" (default), "bing", "duckduckgo", "startpage", "qwant","rstudio community", "twitter","stackoverflow", "github", "grep", and "bitbucket".
rlang

Search for results written in R. Default is TRUE

Value

The generated search URL or an empty string.

Google Search

The search_google function searches Google using: ⁠https://www.google.com/search?q=<query>⁠

See https://moz.com/learn/seo/search-operators for details.

Bing Search

The search_bing() function searches Bing using: ⁠https://www.bing.com/search?q=<query>⁠

DuckDuckGo Search

The search_duckduckgo() and search_ddg() functions both search DuckDuckGo using: ⁠https://duckduckgo.com/?q=<query>⁠

Startpage Search

The search_startpage() function searches startpage using: https://startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=<query>

Ecosia Search

The search_ecosia() function searches Ecosia using: https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=<query>

For additional details regarding Ecosia's search interface please see: https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/502-ecosia-on-desktop

Rseek Search

The search_rseek() function searches Rseek using: ⁠https://rseek.org/?q=<query>⁠

Qwant Search

The search_qwant() function searches Qwant using: ⁠https://www.qwant.com/?q=<query>⁠

RStudio Community Search

The search_rstudio_community() and search_rscom() functions both search RStudio Community using: https://community.rstudio.com/search?q=<query>

For additional details regarding RStudio Community's search interface please see the Discourse API documentation: https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Search

Twitter Search

The search_twitter() functions search Twitter using: https://twitter.com/search?q=<query>

For additional details regarding Twitter's search interface please see: ⁠https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-advanced-search⁠

StackOverflow Search

The search_stackoverflow() and search_so() functions both search StackOverflow using: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Br%5D+<query>

For additional details regarding StackOverflow's search interface please see: ⁠https://stackoverflow.com/help/searching⁠

GitHub Search

The search_github() and search_gh() functions both search GitHub using: https://github.com/search?q=<query>+language%3Ar+type%3Aissue&type=Issues

For additional details regarding GitHub's search interface please see: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/search-github/getting-started-with-searching-on-github/about-searching-on-github and https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github/searching-code/

grep.app Search

The search_grep() function searches all public code on GitHub using grep.app by querying: ⁠https://grep.app/search?q=<query-here>&filter[lang][0]=R⁠

BitBucket Search

The search_bitbucket() and search_bb() functions both search BitBucket using: https://bitbucket.org/search?q=lang%3Ar+<query>

For additional details regarding BitBucket's search interface please see: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/code-search-in-bitbucket-873876782.html

See Also

search_google(), search_bing(), search_duckduckgo(), search_startpage(), search_rseek(), search_qwant(), search_twitter(), search_rstudio_community(), search_stackoverflow(), search_github(), search_grep(), search_bitbucket(), and searcher()

Examples

# Search in a generic way
search_site("r-project", "google")

# Search Google
search_google("r-project")

# Search Bing
search_bing("Microsoft R")

# Search DuckDuckGo
search_duckduckgo("R language")

# Search startpage
search_startpage("VS Code")

# Search Rseek
search_rseek("searcher")

# Search Qwant
search_qwant("Quarto")

# Search RStudio Community
search_rstudio_community("RStudio IDE")

# Search Twitter
search_twitter("searcher")

# Search StackOverflow for Convolutions in the r tag
search_stackoverflow("convolutions")

# Search all languages on StackOverflow for convolutions
search_stackoverflow("convolutions", rlang = FALSE)

# Search GitHub Issues for bivariate normal in the language:r
search_github("bivariate normal")

# Search all languages on GitHub Issues for bivariate normal
search_github("bivariate normal", rlang = FALSE)

# Search R code on GitHub for numerical optimization
search_grep("optim")

# Search all code on GitHub for numerical optimization
search_grep("optim", rlang = FALSE)

# Search BitBucket for assertions
search_bitbucket("assertions")

## Not run: 
# On error, automatically search the message on google
options(error = searcher("google"))
options(error = search_google)

## End(Not run)

Generate a Searcher function for use with Error Handling

Description

Constructs a function object that will search the last R error message on search portals by opening a browser.

Usage

searcher(site, keyword = getOption("searcher.default_keyword"))

Arguments

site

Name of site to search on. Supported options: "google" (default), "bing", "duckduckgo", "startpage", "qwant","rstudio community", "twitter","stackoverflow", "github", "grep", and "bitbucket".
keyword

Opt to search under different default terms.

Details

This function acts as a closure. Thus, you will receive a function back when only specifying the site parameter. To call the function, add a second set of parentheses.

Generic Error Search

The searcher function grabs the last error message and tries to search it. This function will ensure that R language is the primary search context.

Examples

### Manually
searcher("google")()

## Not run: 
### Automatically
# On error, automatically search the message on google
options(error = searcher("google"))

## End(Not run)

Defunct functions in searcher

Description

Functions listed below are no longer included in the searcher package

Details