[Rd] Microsoft help files

[Liaw, Andy]

> From: Hin-Tak Leung
> 
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > I wonder if the software here:
> > 
> > http://morte.jedrea.com/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/
> > 
> > or at any of the links on that page might allow elimination of the
> > need for separately downloading the Microsoft Help compiler --
> > which is just one more task that one must perform to get
> > up and running to build your own R packages on Windows.
> 
> Actually, why does one need to depend on the Microsoft Help
> compiler? The windows build of GNU makeinfo can generate MS
> *.hlp file directly. That's more "native" MS windows than CHM
> files.
> 
> Hin-Tak Leung

Personally my order of preference is

  CHM > plain text > HLP

Isn't it true that even MS is moving away from HLP?

Andy