searcher: Query Search Interfaces

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".

• ...

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/searcher

• https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/searcher/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/searcher/issues

Author

Maintainer: James Balamuta balamut2@illinois.edu (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Alex Rossell Hayes alexander@rossellhayes.com (ORCID) [contributor]