[R] Building static HTML help pages in R 2.10.x on Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

Michal Kulich wrote:
> On 7.1.2010 9:49, Dieter Menne wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for that code. I fully agree that the current help system is a step
>> back. For stable bookmarking, my workaround is to put
>>
>> options(help.ports=6800)
>>
>> into the profile,  so I can created links like
>>
>> http://127.0.0.1:6800/library/gmodels/html/estimable.html
>>
>> but this still required that I start RGui and the help system once. 
>>
>> Dieter
>>     
>
> Thanks for this, too. Btw, is there a way to start the dynamic Rhelp server in the background without manually launching RGui? That, combined with Dieter's suggestion, would bring the help system sort of back to its original state. 
>   

You don't need Rgui, you could run Rterm, which would have a smaller 
footprint. It's not very hard to start it and minimize it, but if you 
want it running invisibly, you'll need to figure out how to hide the icon.

A disadvantage of doing this is that you won't see help relevant to your 
current session, you'll see help relevant to the background task.  In 
2.10.x there aren't many differences, but you'll find it more limiting 
in 2.11.x and later.

Duncan Murdoch
> I am sorry to say that the new dynamic help is a HUGE nuisance to me. Had to revert back to R 2.9 because of that :-(.
>
> Michal
>
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