R help - Dec 2009 - Building static HTML help pages in R 2.10.x on Windows

I upgraded to R2.10.1pat and discovered, along with everybody else,
that static HTML pages are no longer the default.  Fine; my tastes
would go the other way, but I'm happy to adapt.

However, I'd still like to build static HTML pages (for stable
bookmarking, use when R is not running, etc.).

I'm using the Windows installer, so the advice in the R Installation &
Admin guide (section 2.2, "Help options") to use the configure option
--enable-prebuilt-html doesn't seem to apply.  I'm using
install.packages() rather than R CMD INSTALL, so I don't quite
understand how the --html arg to R CMD INSTALL can apply either.

So, can anybody point me to an example of either:

(a) how to build the static HTML help pages of all currently
    installed packages under Windows, 

or, failing that

(b) how to do this on Windows ab initio, from a clean install?

Thanks!
-- 
Steve Rowley <sgr at alum.mit.edu> http://alum.mit.edu/www/sgr/

Instead of an answer, may I add question

c) can someone state that it is impossible to generate static HTML 
help pages under Windows?

At 21:40 22.12.2009, Steve Rowley wrote:
>I upgraded to R2.10.1pat and discovered, along with everybody else,
>that static HTML pages are no longer the default.  Fine; my tastes
>would go the other way, but I'm happy to adapt.
>
>However, I'd still like to build static HTML pages (for stable
>bookmarking, use when R is not running, etc.).
>
>I'm using the Windows installer, so the advice in the R Installation
&
>Admin guide (section 2.2, "Help options") to use the configure
option
>--enable-prebuilt-html doesn't seem to apply.  I'm using
>install.packages() rather than R CMD INSTALL, so I don't quite
>understand how the --html arg to R CMD INSTALL can apply either.
>
>So, can anybody point me to an example of either:
>
>(a) how to build the static HTML help pages of all currently
>     installed packages under Windows,
>
>or, failing that
>
>(b) how to do this on Windows ab initio, from a clean install?
>
>Thanks!
>--
>Steve Rowley <sgr at alum.mit.edu> http://alum.mit.edu/www/sgr/
>
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