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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/01/2010 2:16 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:
> Well, among other things, if my global environment becomes
> cluttered/corrupt/etc and I quit R, then restart R, the links in my browser
> are now dead.
You weren't following Dieter's instructions, then.

>   I have to close all the tabs and call help to open them
> again.  Also, the R-supplied java tool for searching help is ancient and
> underwhelming.

Then contribute a new one.
>   A desktop search tool (X1/Copernic/GoogleDesktop/etc) can be
> very handy, but only if it has pre-built help files to index.  Imperfect,
> stale, non-dynamic help is better than no help at all!
>   

Then fix the search tool so it can search dynamic web pages.  They can 
be spidered too, just like static ones.

Duncan Murdoch
> As others have done, I have switched back to 2.9.2 until I can build all
> help files (on Windows).  Thanks to those people who are figuring out how to
> do this.
>   
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>wrote:
>
> > On 07/01/2010 11:36 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> >
> >> For what it is worth, I would gladly sacrifice this capability in
> >> order to be able to consult all my R help pages through a Firefox
> >> bookmark to the packages listing (which is what I used to do, and will
> >> do again, when I get time to either rebuild from source or get the
> >> forthcoming Fedora RPM, which will have static pages as the default),
> >> without starting an R session.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > What's so hard about leaving an R session running, and using bookmarks as
> > Dieter described?
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
> >  Jon
> >>
> >> On 01/07/10 10:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >> > A more useful example than ls() would be methods().   I think it would >
> >> be nice to have a list of methods included in the man page for a generic >
> >> function, and links to their pages if they have their own man pages.  > You
> >> might want to list all installed methods, with some sort of > highlighting
> >> to indicate which ones are already attached, or perhaps be > able to toggle
> >> between installed and attached, or whatever.  None of > that is possible
> >> with static help, not even a list of installed methods, > because someone
> >> might install a new package that offers some others > after the static help
> >> has already been built.
> >> > > You just need to use some imagination.
> >> > > Duncan Murdoch
> >>
> >>
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