Message-ID: <20100107163636.GA12409@psych.upenn.edu>
Date: 2010-01-07T16:36:36Z
From: Jonathan Baron
Subject: Building static HTML help pages in R 2.10.x on Windows
In-Reply-To: <4B45FE90.9030203@stats.uwo.ca>
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.
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