Searching for %>% is broken, using :: in search is broken

[richierocks]

Searching for magrittr's pipe operator, %>% leads me to

https://www.rdocumentation.org/search?q=%25%3E%25

with no functions found.

The page I wanted is here

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/magrittr/versions/1.5/topics/%25%3E%25

[ludov04]

Thanks for reporting, seems like the search is confused by thoses special characters

[ludov04]

It turns out thoses characters are stripped out at index time by elasticsearch. This phase is called the analysis, and the standard analyzer removes most of the punctuation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/analysis-intro.html

The only way to have them back would be to reindex everything in a new index that uses another analyzer. This can take a very long time and results for more "common" usage can be affected in a bad way.

I would leave this alone for now. Hopefully people can search for pipe (https://www.rdocumentation.org/search?q=pipe) and find what they are looking for

[richierocks]

I don't know if it afffects your decision, but searching for functions by using packagename::functionname is also a useful thing to do, and currently not working due to punctuation stripping.

[ludov04]

Good to know, I'll keep this in mind while exploring solutions

[ludov04]

Searching for packagename::function is now possible, leaving the issue open cause the original issue is till unsolved