Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 24 July 2005 at 19:38, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > | It is already optional, and documented as such as Uwe points out: > > Yup, that one I evidently didn't know ... maybe the help on --docs needs to > be more explicit. Dunno. Or the section in the 'R Extensions' manual could > mention it too as it doesn't seem to:
You were looking in the wrong place. This is a problem in setting up on Windows, so you should be looking in the R-admin manual. Quoting it: "To skip building compiled html help, set WINHELP=NO in ‘MkRules’. In this case the Help Workshop will not be needed." You can also do it on a case-by-case basis, as Uwe says, but I think editing MkRules makes more sense if you don't want to install HHC. Uwe's option is documented in ?INSTALL. Duncan Murdoch > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/R/R-2.1.1> grep 'docs="normal"' doc/manual/* > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/R/R-2.1.1> > > | > 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. > > Hm. I find that a tad backwards as building packages for distribution is (or > should) be done by scripts. And those are perfectly capable of picking a > non-default value. Somehow I doubt Uwe builds the almost 600 Windows binaries > by manual invocations ... > > Regards, Dirk > ______________________________________________ [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
