[R] new help pages in R 2.10.0

[Jonathan Baron]

Thanks.  I misunderstood "compiled".  Sorry.

I need "static" html.

I cannot install all the packages (for several reasons).  That is why
I wrote my script to extract the html pages only. The parts of R that
it uses are:
/usr/share/R/perl/build-help.pl
tools:::.writePkgIndices()
make.packages.html()

I will see how it works.  But I may give up if it doesn't work.

Jon

On 11/05/09 21:59, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> 
> Jonathan Baron wrote:
> > I haven't tried this yet, but I should note that my Site Search page:
> > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu,
> > and the associated R function RSiteSearch and related functions,
> > depend on compiled html help files.
> 
> 
> On regular html, not compiled html, I believe.
> 
> 
> 
> > The idea is to be able to search the help page of functions that you
> > don't have installed yet, to see if you want to install some package.
> > 
> > There are other ways to do this, listed in my page.  And perhaps my
> > page is not necessary anymore.  (I would love it if someone took it
> > over, whether it is or not.)  Or maybe I'm worrying too much about the
> > new version.  I do have a script that generates the html help pages
> > only, and maybe it will still work, although it uses other scripts
> > that come with R itself.
> 
> You may need to install the packages including the option to generate 
> static html files. That is still possible.
> 
> Just compiled html support has been withdrawn (which is a proprietary 
> Microsoft format Microsoft does not support actively anymore).
> 
> Best wishes,
> Uwe

-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron