On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Gong-Yi Liao <gong-yi.l...@uconn.edu> wrote:
> Thank you for comments,
>
> 1. About MathJax's sheer size:
>
> I think we can consider the following two cases:
>
> A. The user starts nanohttpd on his/her own PC and read the
> help files in html
> (i.e. > options(help_type="html", browser="xdg_open")
> > ?svd )
> For this case, I think that the user can just install a
> MathJax distribution on his/her own PC (or workstation)
> and let the local nanohttpd send the MathJax scripts,
> fonts and image files to user's browser. Since all the
> MathJax files are transmitted locally (i.e. at the same
> IP, on the same machine), I think 130 MB is not a big
> issue in this case.
But the user still needs to get it in some way - an additional
installation step means that it's probably not suitable for inclusion
with base R. It could possibly be bundled inside a package, using
some tricks to keep all the files in a single zip file, which reduces
the bundle size to a manageable 15 meg.
> B. The user reads the R help html pages, which are hosted by
> a third party httpd server
>
> For this case, I think a CDN (Content Delivery Network)
> hosting server is needed. MathJax's 130 MB size can be a
> critical issue in this case. As far as I know, there's
> a site ( mathjax.connectmv.com ) providing such service,
> but I can't imagine if all the R users around the world
> request resources from this site 24-7, the site must
> be DoSed.
Agreed.
> 2. About the helpr package:
>
> I install the helpr package from CRAN, and, maybe due to my
> problem, the manual of this package is quite confusing to me.
> I run the command helpr and my browser shows me the following
> content:
Could you please provide a reproducible example?
The following steps should get you up and running:
install.packages("helpr")
library(helpr)
helpr()
The solr warnings will be removed in the next version - you can ignore
them for now.
Hadley
--
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/
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