R-insiders: While trying to be clever I inserted these lines in ..\Rprofile.site (which works in R2.9.2 and earlier)
# to prefer Compiled HTML help options(chmhelp=TRUE) but upon re-starting R2.10.0 I learned that chmhelp = TRUE is no longer supported: use help_type ="text" I'm sure this was explained elsewhere but I missed it. Could someone explain why the compiled html help is no longer supported? Thanks. Charles Annis, P.E. charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ulrike Groemping Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:17 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Cannot activate chm help in R 2.10 Uwe Ligges-3 wrote: > > > > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 10/27/2009 10:56 AM, Ulrike Groemping wrote: >>> >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: >>>> >>>> Ulrike Groemping wrote: >>>> ... >>>>> My system is Windows XP, German locale computer. On installation, I >>>>> was >>>>> asked to decide for text or html help and chose html (there was no >>>>> radio >>>>> button for chm help). >>>> ... >>>> >>>> If you set >>>> >>>> options(help_type="html") >>>> >>>> you'll get HTML help with links in your default browser. >>>> >>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Thank you very much, this works. But I am very surprised that it is >>> not the >>> default. Having chosen html help during installation, I would have >>> expected >>> this to be active without having to change an option. >> >> Yes, it should have been, but there was a bug in the installer, and the >> preference indicated there was ignored. This is why it's useful to have >> people doing testing during the beta test period: things like this are >> easy to fix, but they need to be noticed first. > >> Duncan Murdoch > > And let me add: > > The whole statistics department has been on two pre-release versions > (beta and release-candidate) and nobody reported any error. The > installer problem has not been found because I installed from sources > anyway. This shows it makes sense to have more than just 400+ beta > testers. ;-) > > Uwe > > Two more comments: For those of us who have already installed the version with this installer bug: If you do not want to change the option each time you call R, it is easy to change it permanently in the file R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site (where R_HOME stands for the directory in which your R is installed, e.g. c:\programs\r\r-2.10.0). Regarding beta testing (yes, I admit, I usually leave that to others, and am nevertheless looking for beta testers of my package RcmdrPlugin.DoE), maybe it would be time for an experimental design that specifies characteristics of beta testers to ensure some diversity there, perhaps package DoE.base or FrF2 could help there (half-, but only half-jokingly) ;-) Regards, Ulrike -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cannot-activate-chm-help-in-R-2.10-tp26067423p26084237 .html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
