On 05/12/2009 4:36 PM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
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.
If you leave a copy of R running to serve them, you can. Tell it to use
a particular port (via options(help.ports=12345), for example) and then
set your bookmark to work with that.
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,
Obviously that is a problem with ESS. Why would it care at all where
the HTML is coming from???
Duncan Murdoch
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
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