Murray Jorgensen wrote:
I have just installed R 2.11.1 on my XP laptop.
I like html help for browsing but text help for on-the-fly look-ups. I
was a bit surprised when I was asked to choose between them during the
installation. I chose text, thinking I could fix the html help later,
which is what I am trying to do now.
Now when I ask for html help my browser goes to
'http://-ip-number-/doc/html/index.html'
instead of where I want on my computer:
C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\index.html
Now I can go where I want manually but then the package list on
C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\packages.html
does not include all the packages that I have installed and linked. I
don't want to read my html help from the web because sometimes I am
off-line or on a slow connection.
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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