[Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

[Peter Ehlers]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> What is it that you particularly liked about the CHM help?  One thing it did
>> well was the table of contents at the side, and the built-in search.  I
>> would like to get those back, in the HTML help.  Is there anything else?
>>
> 
> The main thing I miss is the speed. On my Vista system with IE8 it
> seems to come up slower than the chm based help.
> 
> Has anyone tried it with a text-based browser such as lynx to see if
> it runs faster that way?  Is there an option to specify which browser
> to use for help?
> 
Gabor, am I right in assuming that the speed problem is for the
first time you use help? I start Firefox whenever I start R. I don't
see much of a speed hit after that.

  -Peter Ehlers

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