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navigation panel with help

4 messages · Edwin Sun, Duncan Murdoch, Changyou Sun

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Edwin Sun
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All,

I installed the lastest version of R 2.10.1. On the help page for a specific
function, it turns out that the vertical navigation panel on the left does
not appear anymore. For example, 

?lm

The help page from this command is a page without navigation panel (which I
prefer to use). I notice there is an index link at the bottom of the page.
By the way, I did not make any change on my browser.

Is this a change for this version? Thank you for your help.

Edwin Sun
Duncan Murdoch
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On 28/01/2010 3:15 PM, Edwin Sun wrote:
Yes, we have dropped support for CHM help, which had the navigation 
pane.  The default display is now HTML help. 

Duncan Murdoch
Changyou Sun
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Duncan,

Thank you for your quick reply. Do we users have any options to change
that? I personally become addicted to the navigation panel and feel it
is kind of table of contents.

Regards,


Edwin Sun


-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:19 PM
To: Changyou Sun
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] navigation panel with help
On 28/01/2010 3:15 PM, Edwin Sun wrote:
specific
does
(which I
page.
Yes, we have dropped support for CHM help, which had the navigation 
pane.  The default display is now HTML help. 

Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch
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On 28/01/2010 3:22 PM, Changyou Sun wrote:
You could downgrade to 2.9.2, but you'd lose all the other new stuff.  
You could contribute code to display the table of contents in the HTML 
version.  I suppose you could resurrect the old code and build your own 
CHM help in 2.10.1, but I would guess adding the table of contents to 
the HTML help would be easier.

Duncan Murdoch