Please prevent google from indexing your documentation
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This site is the scourge of hunting for help on R functions. When I google an R function, the absolute last thing I want to come up in the search results is a duplicate of what I"ve already got from the ? help documentation in R.
I'm just an observer, but my perspective on this suggestion:
There are many times that I'm looking for info on a package when I don't have it installed or when I don't have R up and running. In these cases, I find it quite useful that google returns the "vanilla help pages".
Suggestion: if you don't want to include these pages in your search, just include -site:rdocumentation.org in your google search pattern, and it will exclude this website. If the website prevented all pages from being indexed, then the decision would be forced on everybody; by allowing you to filter out the website, the user preference can be honored.
(N.B.: this point might be either moot or more important recently, however, as it appears that the website does not attempt to keep up with package versions. For instance, dplyr-0.7.8 is the latest as of now, though 0.8.0 was released on Feb 15, and more versions since then. If nothing is updated, then my alteration to your suggestion would be to take it down as out-of-date and misleading. But that's a bit heavy-handed, especially if the maintainers have any intent of bring it up-to-date at some point.)
There is a newer one here: RDocumentation 2.0