I don't understand the advantages of generating html help dynamically, but I have found some clear disadvantages.
One is that I can no longer use a bookmark in my browser to access the list of packages and go from there to individual help pages. The other is that, if I try to use ESS instead (using options(help_type="html") in .Rprofile) - it is a mess. ESS splits the emacs frame (which then must be closed by hand) and opens a new window (or at best a new tab) for every request, requiring these to be closed too. You could say that this is a problem with ESS, which is true, but, again, I don't see the down side of having static html help pages. (Maybe there is one. But it certainly isn't disk space: all together these take about as much of that as a couple of digital photos.) Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
