Re: [Rd] Using MathJax in R's help system

2011-02-02 Thread Simon Urbanek
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

Re: [Rd] Using MathJax in R's help system

2011-02-02 Thread Gong-Yi Liao
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. 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

Re: [Rd] Using MathJax in R's help system

2011-02-02 Thread Gong-Yi Liao
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")

Re: [Rd] Using MathJax in R's help system

2011-02-02 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Gong-Yi Liao 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.

Re: [Rd] Using MathJax in R's help system

2011-02-02 Thread Hadley Wickham
Two comments: * one problem with mathjax is it's sheer size: 130 meg and >30,000 files. A hosted solution is in the works and will hopefully resolve that situations * you might also want to look at the helpr package, which is a ground up rewrite of the R documentation html renderer to provide

Re: [Rd] Using MathJax in R's help system

2011-02-02 Thread Ken.Williams
Very nice. I think this is a great idea too. -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters Phone: 651-848-7712 ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com http://labs.thomsonreuters.com On 2/2/11 2:00 AM, "GONG-YI LIAO" wrote: >Hi, > > I am doing a small experiment to test if I can use