[Rd] Building help pages

[Uwe Ligges]

Aleš Žiberna wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I was just wondering, why only one of my "Rd" files is converted in 
> "chm" format (REGE) and the other are not when installing a package? The 
> output from installing a package on WinXp is below.

I guess your are installing from a source directory from which you 
already have installed some time ago. The chm files correpsonding to 
*unchanged* Rd files are not re-generated. So In guess only REGE.Rd has 
changed in the meantime.


> I tried to find more information about what "chm" format actually is, 
> however have found none.

Microsoft's compiled html format can be accessed by, e.g.
options(chmhelp=TRUE)
?plot

Uwe Ligges


> Best regards and thaks for any replies,
> Ales Ziberna
> 
> 
> C:\Ales\Statistika>R CMD INSTALL blockmodeling
> 
> 
> ---------- Making package blockmodeling ------------
>   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>   installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
>   making DLL ...
>   ... DLL made
>   installing DLL
>   installing R files
>   installing man source files
>   installing indices
>   installing help
>  >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'blockmodeling'
>      Formats: text html latex example chm
>   Pajek                             text    html    latex
>   REGE                              text    html    latex   example chm
>   check.these.par                   text    html    latex   example
>   clu                               text    html    latex   example
>   crit.fun                          text    html    latex   example
>   find.m                            text    html    latex
>   formatA                           text    html    latex   example
>   fun.by.blocks                     text    html    latex   example
>   gplot1                            text    html    latex
>   nkpartitions                      text    html    latex   example
>   opt.par                           text    html    latex   example
>   opt.random.par                    text    html    latex   example
>   plot.mat                          text    html    latex   example
>   rand                              text    html    latex
>   recode                            text    html    latex   example
>   sedist                            text    html    latex   example
>   ss                                text    html    latex
>   two2one                           text    html    latex   example
> Microsoft HTML Help Compiler 4.74.8702
> 
> Compiling c:\Ales\Statistika\blockmodeling\chm\blockmodeling.chm
> 
> 
> Compile time: 0 minutes, 3 seconds
> 19      Topics
> 144     Local links
> 7       Internet links
> 1       Graphic
> 
> 
> Created c:\Ales\Statistika\blockmodeling\chm\blockmodeling.chm, 59,385 bytes
> Compression decreased file by 44,606 bytes.
>   preparing package blockmodeling for lazy loading
>   adding MD5 sums
> 
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