[R] navigation panel with help

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 28/01/2010 3:22 PM, Changyou Sun wrote:
> Duncan,
>
> Thank you for your quick reply. Do we users have any options to change
> that? I personally become addicted to the navigation panel and feel it
> is kind of table of contents.
>   

You could downgrade to 2.9.2, but you'd lose all the other new stuff.  
You could contribute code to display the table of contents in the HTML 
version.  I suppose you could resurrect the old code and build your own 
CHM help in 2.10.1, but I would guess adding the table of contents to 
the HTML help would be easier.

Duncan Murdoch
> Regards,
>
>
> Edwin Sun
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:19 PM
> To: Changyou Sun
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] navigation panel with help
>
> On 28/01/2010 3:15 PM, Edwin Sun wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I installed the lastest version of R 2.10.1. On the help page for a
> specific
> > function, it turns out that the vertical navigation panel on the left
> does
> > not appear anymore. For example, 
> >
> > ?lm
> >
> > The help page from this command is a page without navigation panel
> (which I
> > prefer to use). I notice there is an index link at the bottom of the
> page.
> > By the way, I did not make any change on my browser.
> >
> > Is this a change for this version? Thank you for your help.
>
> Yes, we have dropped support for CHM help, which had the navigation 
> pane.  The default display is now HTML help. 
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>