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searcher: Query Search Interfaces and AI Assistants

Source: R/searcher-package.R
searcher-package.Rd

Provides search interfaces to look up terms on major search engines including 'Google', 'Bing', 'DuckDuckGo', 'Startpage', 'Ecosia', 'Brave', 'Kagi', 'rseek', social platforms like 'X' (formerly Twitter), 'BlueSky', 'Mastodon', programming communities such as 'StackOverflow', 'Posit Community', and code repositories including 'GitHub', 'grep.app', and 'BitBucket'. Additionally, provides direct integration with AI assistants through specialized query functions for 'ChatGPT', 'Claude AI', 'Perplexity AI', 'Mistral AI', 'Microsoft Copilot', and 'Meta AI', complete with an AI prompt management system for R-optimized interactions. Upon searching or querying, a browser window will open with the search results or AI interface pre-populated with the specified query.

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".

  • Other options are used to set the default prompts for AI services

    • searcher.chatgpt_prompt: Default prompt for OpenAI's ChatGPT.

    • searcher.claude_prompt: Default prompt for Anthropic's Claude AI.

    • searcher.perplexity_prompt: Default prompt for Perplexity AI.

    • searcher.mistral_prompt: Default prompt for Mistral AI's Le Chat.

    • searcher.bing_copilot_prompt: Default prompt for Microsoft's (Bing) Copilot.

    • searcher.grok_prompt: Default prompt for xAI's Grok AI.

    • searcher.meta_ai_prompt: Default prompt for Meta's AI.

See also

Useful links:

Author

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

Other contributors: