[Rd] R 2.10 and help

[Hadley Wickham]

>> I've tried various ways to access the help as HTML since then, but
>> I've had no luck. I was wondering if anyone would be able to suggest
>> an approach where I could run 'help(plot)', and then take the
>> resulting .rd file and generate the necessary html help from it.
>>
>
> It's much more simple since 2.10 as you can simply use the URL (same URL as the help system uses). For examples see JGR or the Mac GUI. Or you can do the same thing that the Rhttpd server does  actually generating the html - see tools:::httpd

Another approach along the same lines is the in progress helpr
package: http://github.com/hadley/helpr

Hadley

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