Message-ID: <4AEE1760.3080609@ucalgary.ca>
Date: 2009-11-01T23:18:56Z
From: Peter Ehlers
Subject: Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)
In-Reply-To: <971536df0911011504j2a347b20r9936b3c0c05d7277@mail.gmail.com>
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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