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"or"ddg","startpage"(formerly"ixquick") or"sp","qwant","rseek","brave","kagi","posit community"(formerly"rstudio community") or"posit","twitter"or"x","bluesky","mastodon","stackoverflow","github","grep","bitbucket","chatgpt","claude","perplexity","mistral","bing copilot"or"copilot", and"meta ai"or"meta".- 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")()
#> Please type into your browser:
#> https://google.com/search?q=test.r:1:1:%20unexpected%20'%3C'%0A1:%20%3C%0A%20%20%20%20%5E%20r%20programming
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
### Automatically
# On error, automatically search the message on google
options(error = searcher("google"))
} # }