On Feb 2, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Gong-Yi Liao wrote:
>
> I think your "another CRAN package for mathjax" approach is better
>
> than modifying the base R's code. I am trying to find the possible
>
> way to implement it.
>
Note that R has already an extensible http server included (it's used for the
help already!), so it is easy for package to extend it - you could trivially
host the necessary files from a package.
Cheers,
S
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:38 -0600, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>> 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()
>>
>
> It seems that I triggered a strange issue (or, a bug is ESS?). I run
> exactly the same commands in EMACS+ESS and then I got the error
> messages shown in my last mail. Now, I try to do the same things
> but, at this time, I run the commands in a terminal (gnome-terminal),
> then, everything works properly, as you expected (I can see the
> packages and functions list with nice CSS layout in the browser).
>
> This issue is quite weird, and I think it is caused by Emacs or ESS
> but not the helpr package. I still need to do several test to figure
> out what really causes it.
>
>
>
>
>
>> The solr warnings will be removed in the next version - you can ignore
>> them for now.
>>
>> Hadley
>>
>
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