Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)
I found the option in ?options and just tried it with Firefox and
Google Chrome and they do seem a bit faster than IE.
options(browser = function(x) shell(paste("start firefox", x)))
?help
options(browser = function(x)
shell(paste("%LocalAppData%\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe",
x)))
?help.search
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca> wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
What is it that you particularly liked about the CHM help? ?One thing it did well was the table of contents at the side, and the built-in search. ?I would like to get those back, in the HTML help. ?Is there anything else?
The main thing I miss is the speed. On my Vista system with IE8 it seems to come up slower than the chm based help. Has anyone tried it with a text-based browser such as lynx to see if it runs faster that way? ?Is there an option to specify which browser to use for help?
Gabor, am I right in assuming that the speed problem is for the first time you use help? I start Firefox whenever I start R. I don't see much of a speed hit after that. ?-Peter Ehlers
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