[R] aggregated CHM help files

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, John Aitchison wrote:

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> I have recently been interested in the possibility that the R .CHM format
> help  files could be aggregated into a single help file, full text
> searchable  (as in, using the existing Microsoft(M$) full text search
> facility) . So it - the M$ html help engine-  would find, across files,
> words like Kalman or Kohonen , which are not found by the Javascript
> keyword search that searches the HTML files  (titles and the prespecified
> keywords).
>
>
> Also, I like CHM (aka "HTML  Help") for some reason - it seems elegant.
>
>
>
> I don't know if I am wasting my time here, and if someone has been there
> done that, I'd like to know about it.  I spent a few hours wrestling with
> Microsoft's 'HTML Help Workshop' ( I have never used it before) and got
> precisely nowhere, but it is in theory possible .. I quote from the Help
> Workshop file

[...]

I believe it is only possible to do this statically, that is to link
several .chm files into a single help set from a pre-specified set.
But the set of help files for R is dynamic, depending which packages
are available (and which versions of the packages).  We have enough toruble
with cross-links between help files ....

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