On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > On 07/01/2010 9:05 AM, Michael Friendly wrote: >> >> Michal Kulich wrote: >> > On 7.1.2010 9:49, Dieter Menne wrote: >> > > I am sorry to say that the new dynamic help is a HUGE nuisance to me. >> > > Had to revert back to R 2.9 because of that :-(. >> > > Michal >> >> I too have reverted to 2.9.2 on Win XP because I find html help to be far >> less convenient than the compiled CHM help I had before. CHM help is >> so much easier because the Contents, Index and Search panels make it easy >> to *see* all the items defined for a package, and I get a separate help >> window for each package. >> I very much appreciate the efforts of the R-core team to move R forward, >> but I think the change in help is a step back. >> > > You can see the items for the package on the index page for the package, > which is linked from every page. > > You can put together a package that displays the help in your favourite > format, if you don't like the default format. There's nothing that we used > in CHM help that couldn't be duplicated in Javascript, without the security > holes. > > I see it as more important that R core enables others to do what they want, > rather than to maintain ancient designs.
Perhaps the link to the Index could be placed at both the top and bottom rather than just at the bottom since its a nuisance to have to scroll down and its less noticeable at the bottom as its typically off the screen. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
