Thanks very much, Duncan. I understand this better now. It takes a bit
of getting used to but the prospect of some day getting graphic elements
to help should make it worthwhile. (And I guess it saves on disk space
by only generating the help pages as needed.)
Cheers, Murray
On 15/06/2010 4:13 a.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Murray Jorgensen wrote:
I have just installed R 2.11.1 on my XP laptop.
I like html help
[...]
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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