On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> On 24 July 2005 at 13:44, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> | hhc.exe is the Microsoft help compiler. You have to download that >> | and then put hhc.exe somewhere in your path. The Windows >> | console command >> | >> | path >> | >> | will give you the pathnames in your current path, any of which >> | you could put it in. >> >> A cheap alternative is to create an empty batch file hhc.bat. I used that for >> a while when I couldn't be bothered to download hhc.exe. However, if you >> actually use compiled html (I don't, from ESS/XEmacs), you may want to get >> hhc.exe. >> >> If there ever was a vote, mine would be for making hhc.exe optional rather >> than required.
It is already optional, and documented as such as Uwe points out: > You can simply avoid building chm files by saying: > > R CMD INSTALL --docs="normal" MyPackage The reason it is on by default is that is the best option for building packages for distribution. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
