post about pkgsearch about blog HOT 19 CLOSED

Also, a short 🎥 screencast would be very fitting in such a post!

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https://r-pkg.org/search.html?q=networks vs https://www.google.com/search?q=R+package+for+networks

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https://twitter.com/JennyBryan/status/1095378743147737088

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mention SEO :-) be it for pkgsearch or other search tools, you definitely want your package's description and title in DESCRIPTION to contain the right keywords.

r-hub/pkgsearch#48

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use case for crandb stuff = activity plots of the packages pkgsearch depends on with releases as vertical lines.

the pkgsearch and crandb stuff are so different that I even wonder whether the post should be split in two. 🤔

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especially if going into details of how search works, how to use advanced search etc.

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r-hub/pkgsearch#42

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pkgdown uses crandb API https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/blob/a2e7b262c6db857014a24cbaf1c8ec2921e59f2c/R/build-news.R#L216

r-hub/pkgsearch#50

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Reg cran_events(), mention it could be added to the .Rprofile, link to https://whattheyforgot.org/r-startup.html#rprofile

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You would need to change the timeout, though, in case the connection is down or just slow. The best would be to run it in the background.

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You would need to change the timeout, though, in case the connection is down or just slow. The best would be to run it in the background.

So changes are actually needed in cran_events() code before the CRAN release?

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Another thing to mention in a blog post, this question: https://twitter.com/stufield3/status/1186667832718876673

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I'd like to use cran_events() to try and identify CRAN vacations from that data. What's the maximal value of limit @gaborcsardi? Would it be a bad idea to retrieve all the data?

Eg https://twitter.com/groundwalkergmb/status/1158429213797449728, https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2018q4/003293.html

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There is no limit, and you can retrieve all the data, but it is very heavy on the DB, so maybe do not put that in the blog post, so people will not just casually run it? I don't think many of them would, but still.

And maybe store it in a local file, so if you re-render() it is not downloaded every time.

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So would it be fine to show how to download the latest 10,000 events in the blog post, if I write one shouldn't try getting too many events at once and that one should cache/save the API response?

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Also, a short screencast would be very fitting in such a post!

Maybe even two, one for search within the R console, one for search and exploration using the add-in.

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For CRAN news mention CRANberries as an alternative approach (RSS feed, Twitter account, web page).

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R Weekly helper script by Jonathan Carroll.

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