R help - Nov 2007 - building packages: hhc.exe not found using xp

Hello, 

Apologies in advance if this should be in R-devel, not Rhelp.  I did read
through the R-devel thread started by Gabor Grothendieck in September of this
year - I am getting the exact same error using a new computer that has XP
installed, not vista, complaining that the file hhc.exe is not found.  I have
downloaded the hhc.exe to HTML Help Workshop dir in Program Files but it says
that there is a newer version (apparently not called hhc.exe) and seems to
refuse to see the hhc.exe.  On my old computer, also running XP, I was able to
compile the CHM files.

I can successfully build the package with the appropriate non-html help files
and I had resigned myself to leaving it as-is for the windows version, until I
noticed that when calling up help in windows, instead of simply bringing up the
non-html help files it actually prints an error message:

Warning message:
In
print.help_files_with_topic("C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library/package1/chm/package1")
:
  No CHM help for 'package1' in package 'package1' is available:
the CHM file for the package is missing

If nothing else, is there a way to turn off this warning in windows?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Kristin

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Nicodemus, Kristin (NIH/NIMH) [C] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Apologies in advance if this should be in R-devel, not Rhelp.  I did 
> read through the R-devel thread started by Gabor Grothendieck in 
> September of this year - I am getting the exact same error using a new 
> computer that has XP installed, not vista, complaining that the file 
> hhc.exe is not found.
It works for many careful people, including on Vista.
> I have downloaded the hhc.exe to HTML Help 
> Workshop dir in Program Files but it says that there is a newer version 
> (apparently not called hhc.exe) and seems to refuse to see the hhc.exe. 
> On my old computer, also running XP, I was able to compile the CHM 
> files.
Is it on your path?  There are two parts to HTML Help Workshop, and it is 
the second that is not installed on recent systems.
> I can successfully build the package with the appropriate non-html help 
files and I had resigned myself to leaving it as-is for the windows version,
until I noticed that when calling up help in windows, instead of simply bringing
up the non-html help files it actually prints an error
message:
>
> Warning message:
> In
print.help_files_with_topic("C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.0/library/package1/chm/package1")
:
>  No CHM help for 'package1' in package 'package1' is
available:
> the CHM file for the package is missing
>
> If nothing else, is there a way to turn off this warning in windows?
Yes, choose a different default help type, either when you install R or by 
editing etc/Rprofile.site.

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