Well, among other things, if my global environment becomes cluttered/corrupt/etc and I quit R, then restart R, the links in my browser are now dead. I have to close all the tabs and call help to open them again. Also, the R-supplied java tool for searching help is ancient and underwhelming. A desktop search tool (X1/Copernic/GoogleDesktop/etc) can be very handy, but only if it has pre-built help files to index. Imperfect, stale, non-dynamic help is better than no help at all!
As others have done, I have switched back to 2.9.2 until I can build all help files (on Windows). Thanks to those people who are figuring out how to do this. Kevin On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>wrote: > On 07/01/2010 11:36 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > > What's so hard about leaving an R session running, and using bookmarks as > Dieter described? > > Duncan Murdoch > > 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 >> >> > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Kevin Wright [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
