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.  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.  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!

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@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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