[Rd] options("quit.with.no.save"), and Windows installer changes

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Tue Jul 4 23:56:16 CEST 2006


On 4 July 2006 at 15:36, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| On 7/4/2006 1:26 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 4 July 2006 at 08:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| > | at install time.  The only (intentional) change to the current behaviour 
| > | is to default to CHM help instead of plain text.
| > 
| > Some people may take offence with the fact that a non-open-source tool is now
| > required to build GNU R on the Windows platform. I liked the old setting
| > where you could use the chm compiler, if installed, but could live quite well
| > without it too.
| 
| There's no change there.  This just gets the installer to set an option 
| in the default Rprofile file.  If you don't use the installer, it won't 
| be set, and you'll still default to plain text help.

I am sorry. I misread your original mail as affecting the build process, not
the installer.  Please ignore my non-applicable complaint. Not enough coffee.

Dirk

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