[R] Building static HTML help pages in R 2.10.x on Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/01/2010 11:36 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> For what it is worth, I would gladly sacrifice this capability in
> order to be able to consult all my R help pages through a Firefox
> bookmark to the packages listing (which is what I used to do, and will
> do again, when I get time to either rebuild from source or get the
> forthcoming Fedora RPM, which will have static pages as the default),
> without starting an R session.
>   

What's so hard about leaving an R session running, and using bookmarks 
as Dieter described?

Duncan Murdoch
> Jon
>
> On 01/07/10 10:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > A more useful example than ls() would be methods().   I think it would 
> > be nice to have a list of methods included in the man page for a generic 
> > function, and links to their pages if they have their own man pages.  
> > You might want to list all installed methods, with some sort of 
> > highlighting to indicate which ones are already attached, or perhaps be 
> > able to toggle between installed and attached, or whatever.  None of 
> > that is possible with static help, not even a list of installed methods, 
> > because someone might install a new package that offers some others 
> > after the static help has already been built.
> > 
> > You just need to use some imagination.
> > 
> > Duncan Murdoch
>