Antonio,

Starting from 2.10, R dropped its support for Windows CHM  help.  It has 
been replaced with the web browser HTML based one.  To activate this add 
the following line to your Rprofile

options(help_type="html")

The pages come up in your browser.  They all have the same links as 
before.  It works quite well with Firefox as they come up in new tabs, so 
you can have several of them open at the same time.

Hope this helps,

Andy

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Process Laboratory
3M Corporate Research Laboratory
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From:
<Antonio.Gasparrini@lshtm.ac.uk>
To:
<r-help@r-project.org>
Date:
11/05/2009 02:17 PM
Subject:
[R] new help pages in R 2.10.0
Sent by:
<r-help-bounces@r-project.org>



Dear R-users,
 
I've just installed the last version of R (2.10.0) in Windows and found a 
completely new version of the help pages.
Basically, they now appear as a simple (even if slightly embellished) text 
file.
I tried to install it with a customized startup and realized that the old 
CHM files (the default for Windows up to 2.9.2) are not included anymore 
as a possible choice.
 
I don't know if this is due to some mistake I've done, but otherwise would 
be a major drawback of the new version.
The opportunity to navigate through different help pages using the links 
in the old R was really useful.
 
At the moment I re-installed the old R 2.9.2, but I hope this will change 
in later versions.
Or at least, that the user could have the opportunity to choose the help 
pages he deems more suitable for his purposes.
 
I hope someone could give some details
Regards,

Antonio Gasparrini
Public and Environmental Health Research Unit (PEHRU)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Office: 0044 (0)20 79272406 - Mobile: 0044 (0)79 64925523

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