R GUI

[Joshua Root]

David Epstein wrote:
> My inability to use the port search facility efficiently became evident on
> this issue, since my search for the R-gui failed miserably. "port search R"
> brings in every port with an r in its name. "man port" advertises that one
> can use regular expressions in the search, but fails to point to a
> particular set of regular expressions, ignoring the fact that there are many
> "standard" collections of basic regular expressions, each likely to have a
> different way of indicating word boundaries. I tried
> port search "\<R\>" and also port search "\bR\b",
> and was told there are no matches, even through "port info R works". Nor
> could I figure out how to make the matching case-sensitive.

The man page is actually wrong. The search expression is evaluated as a
glob, not a regex. `port search " R "` seems to do what you want.

It's hard not to suspect that its creators were *trying* to make life
hard when they chose a single-letter name...

- Josh