I have just installed R 2.11.1 on my XP laptop. I like html help for browsing but text help for on-the-fly look-ups. I was a bit surprised when I was asked to choose between them during the installation. I chose text, thinking I could fix the html help later, which is what I am trying to do now. Now when I ask for html help my browser goes to 'http://-ip-number-/doc/html/index.html' instead of where I want on my computer: C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\index.html Now I can go where I want manually but then the package list on C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\packages.html does not include all the packages that I have installed and linked. I don't want to read my html help from the web because sometimes I am off-line or on a slow connection. How do I go about getting a local set of html help files? Cheers, Murray Jorgensen -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz majorgensen at ihug.co.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk Home +64 7 825 0441 Mobile 021 0200 8350
If the IP number is something like 127.0.0.1:xxxxx then you are on your local computer. Cheers Joris On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Murray Jorgensen <maj at waikato.ac.nz> wrote:> I have just installed R 2.11.1 on my XP laptop. > > I like html help for browsing but text help for on-the-fly look-ups. I was a > bit surprised when I was asked to choose between them during the > installation. I chose text, thinking I could fix the html help later, which > is what I am trying to do now. > > Now when I ask for html help my browser goes to > > 'http://-ip-number-/doc/html/index.html' > > instead of where I want on my computer: > > C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\index.html > > Now I can go where I want manually but then the package list on > > > C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\packages.html > > does not include all the packages that I have installed and linked. I don't > want to read my html help from the web because sometimes I am off-line or on > a slow connection. > > How do I go about getting a local set of html help files? > > Cheers, ? Murray Jorgensen > > -- > Dr Murray Jorgensen ? ? ?http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html > Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand > Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz ?majorgensen at ihug.co.nz ? ? ? ?Fax 7 838 4155 > Phone ?+64 7 838 4773 wk ? ?Home +64 7 825 0441 ? Mobile 021 0200 8350 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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. >-- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control tel : +32 9 264 59 87 Joris.Meys at Ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php
Murray Jorgensen wrote:> I have just installed R 2.11.1 on my XP laptop. > > I like html help for browsing but text help for on-the-fly look-ups. I > was a bit surprised when I was asked to choose between them during the > installation. I chose text, thinking I could fix the html help later, > which is what I am trying to do now. > > Now when I ask for html help my browser goes to > > 'http://-ip-number-/doc/html/index.html' > > instead of where I want on my computer: > > C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\index.html > > Now I can go where I want manually but then the package list on > > > C:\apps\R\R-2.11.1\doc\html\packages.html > > does not include all the packages that I have installed and linked. I > don't want to read my html help from the web because sometimes I am > off-line or on a slow connection. > > How do I go about getting a local set of html help files? > >Since 2.10.0, HTML help is generated on demand. It doesn't go off your local computer, it works locally. This saves a bit of space (the HTML is generated from the same source as the text is generated from), but the main point is that it allows help pages to contain dynamic content. For example, Romain Francois posted some demo code a while ago to allow the display of graphics generated by R within help pages. (Unfortunately it depended on a particular browser feature not supported by Internet Explorer, so I'm going to need to put together something less elegant, but that's life.) Duncan Murdoch