[R] Html help

[Murray Jorgensen]

Thanks very much, Duncan. I understand this better now. It takes a bit 
of getting used to but the prospect of some day getting graphic elements 
to help should make it worthwhile. (And I guess it saves on disk space 
by only generating the help pages as needed.)

Cheers,  Murray

On 15/06/2010 4:13 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Murray Jorgensen wrote:
>> I have just installed R 2.11.1 on my XP laptop.
>>
>> I like html help
[...]
>> How do I go about getting a local set of html help files?
>>
>
> Since 2.10.0, HTML help is generated on demand. It doesn't go off your
> local computer, it works locally. This saves a bit of space (the HTML is
> generated from the same source as the text is generated from), but the
> main point is that it allows help pages to contain dynamic content. For
> example, Romain Francois posted some demo code a while ago to allow the
> display of graphics generated by R within help pages. (Unfortunately it
> depended on a particular browser feature not supported by Internet
> Explorer, so I'm going to need to put together something less elegant,
> but that's life.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch

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