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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/01/2010 9:05 AM, Michael Friendly wrote:
> Michal Kulich wrote:
> > On 7.1.2010 9:49, Dieter Menne wrote:
> > 
> > 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
>
> I too have reverted to 2.9.2 on Win XP because I find html help to be 
> far less convenient than the compiled CHM help I had before. CHM help is
> so much easier because the Contents, Index and Search panels make it 
> easy to *see* all the items defined for a package, and I get a separate 
> help window for each package.
> I very much appreciate the efforts of the R-core team to move R forward,
> but I think the change in help is a step back.
>   

You can see the items for the package on the index page for the package, 
which is linked from every page.

You can put together a package that displays the help in your favourite 
format, if you don't like the default format.  There's nothing that we 
used in CHM help that couldn't be duplicated in Javascript, without the 
security holes.

I see it as more important that R core enables others to do what they 
want, rather than to maintain ancient designs.

Duncan Murdoch