I wonder if the software here: http://morte.jedrea.com/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/ or at any of the links on that page might allow elimination of the need for separately downloading the Microsoft Help compiler -- which is just one more task that one must perform to get up and running to build your own R packages on Windows.
Microsoft help files
2 messages · Gabor Grothendieck, Hin-Tak Leung
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
I wonder if the software here: http://morte.jedrea.com/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/ or at any of the links on that page might allow elimination of the need for separately downloading the Microsoft Help compiler -- which is just one more task that one must perform to get up and running to build your own R packages on Windows.
Actually, why does one need to depend on the Microsoft Help compiler? The windows build of GNU makeinfo can generate MS *.hlp file directly. That's more "native" MS windows than CHM files. Hin-Tak Leung