similar to: R help - howto suppress chm help and use text/latex help?

Hello, as I just spent a (too long) while searching for a way how to persistantly switch back the help display routines from chm to text, here a small documentation how to do that with the windows version of R. The windows installer asks which help type you want to use, I wanted to test the chm version -- which I didn't like. If you after installation want to switch back, you have to edit

Hi all, Here's a curosity I ran into since upgrading to 1.6.2 (precompiled for Windows). When using the chm help I get the following warning. I saw a recent post regarding this as a new warning (``dyn.load warning message in R1.6.2 on Windows XP'' dated 1/28/03), but not in the context of the help system. The warning only appears once and does not prevent the chm file from

I cannot seem to get compiled help working with XP in neither 1.6 or 1.61. The ReadMe.rw1061 specifies: (ii) Compiled HTML files. Set this as the default by options(chmhelp=TRUE) or for individual help items by help(topic, chmhelp=TRUE). Full text search is available from the Search tab. According to Microsoft, to make use of this you will need to have IE3 or later installed and a recent version

Dear R-helpers, When installing a source package I can suppress the compilation of .chm files by using the --docs="normal" option. Is it also possible to suppress the creation and checking of .chm files when calling R CMD check ? best, ingmar

I've recently updated to R 2.4 and have noticed that when I type ?help.on.something in ESS from within emacs, the old text help doesn't show up in the "other" (other being the horizontally split windows) window. Instead the windows chm help file pops up. Is there any way to get R to revert back to the old "simple text based help in the top window" help? I couldn't

Hello! I was just wondering, why only one of my "Rd" files is converted in "chm" format (REGE) and the other are not when installing a package? The output from installing a package on WinXp is below. I tried to find more information about what "chm" format actually is, however have found none. Best regards and thaks for any replies, Ales Ziberna

Hi, Chm (compiled help) is a microsoft invention. It's the default help system under windows, but not so under linux. I found that (at times) I like better how chm help looks. Since there are chm viewers under linux, using chm help files should be possible. Has anybody tried to set R so it opens chm by default? I'm sure there's some flag or Rprofile var that could get this done.

Hi, I have problem generating chm file for the rails doc. I''ve commaned the rdoc to generate the chm by: rdoc -f chm -o chm_folder action* rails-* It gave me the following error: vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/controller/templates/controller.rb:3:15: Expected class name or ''<<''. G ot RubyToken::TkLT: "<" By adding

Hi list, When I type my question in R console using ? sign (example: ?par, when I want to query for par), the following error message popps up: Error in print.help_files_with_topic("C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.1/library/maps/chm/map") : CHM file could not be displayed I appreciate if any body comes back to me with the solution. Regards, Alireza [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all, I just tried to be fast for once, installed R 2.10 and also newly installed all previously-installed packages. However, now all my help files are text only, which is of course a pity with the new possibilities of links between help pages. What can I do to re-activate chm-help? chm-help does not work for anything, not even base functionality. My system is Windows XP, German locale

Hello, When building my package (R CMD check) following error message occurs: ... varinf.plot text html latex example x text html latex example make[2]: *** No rule to make target `disclosure.chm`. Stop. cp: cannot stat 'D:/Programme/R/rw2010dev/disclosure/chm/disclosure.chm`: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [chm-disclosure] Error 1 make: ***

Hi, I would need some help in solving a problem with my R. Whenever I try to type " ?paste " or in general any command for the html help in R, I receive this error message. The strange thing is that I have never had this kind of problem in the past with R, and now I really don't understand why it says that. Also I have selected every single element in the installation process. The

Hi Folks, For the Windows Railers, I''ve made the Rails docs available as a CHM file: http://dema.ruby.com.br/articles/2005/08/16/rails-docs-in-chm-format Cheers, Dema -- http://dema.ruby.com.br - Rails from a .NET perspective

Hi, I have been developing a small package. It install under RedHat Linux 9.0 without a problem. However, I have a small problem under Windows XP. I am using R-1.8.0 on both systems and HTML Help Workshop 4.74.8702.0 on Windows XP. I created the package under Linux. When I try to install the package created under Linux in Windows XP using c:\rtest> rcmd install rtest I get the following

I would like to be able to start the Wine .chm file-viewer, C:\windows\hh.exe, from the command-line like this: wine hh.exe /some/dir/somefile.chm It works if the current directory contains the .chm file, but not if I have to specify a path. Am I missing something?

I just built a package in R (version 2.1.1 on a Linux machine) and then moved it to my computer (R version 2.8.1 on a Windows machine). When I loaded the package and tried to open help for one of the commands, I got the following warning: Warning message: In print.help_files_with_topic("F:/R/R-2.8.1/library/REEMtree/chm/RMSE") : No CHM help for 'RMSE' in package

First: Contrary to claims chm viewing is NOT fixed.It's better but graphics and the index are still broken. I washed my hands on bug reporting of the problems, as I now use firefox with the chm addon which works even better than the last kchmviewer I tried. Great News: I installed the latest PBWin9.0 and the first example I tried worked flawlessly. This surprised me as this was a COM example

hello, my name is Roman Pahl and recently i tried to build a package under Windows. I created the skeleton and did alle the documentation stuff. As i wanted to check it using the 'R CMD CHECK pkgname' command in the Dos-= console some errors appeared. I don=B4t know how to handle. Here are important parts of the log: I marked my questions with a "<-------= ---"

Hi I have installed a windows program that uses chm help files. When the program tries to open the help files Wine displays a dialog saying - Wine does not support viewing chm files and surgest I install MS Internet Explorer or uses an activex component. I have found a linux program (I uses fedora) called displaychm. My question is: Is it posible to configure wine to launch the linux program I

Future Pinball (a free pinball simulation) have some chm help files. I can't see it with 'wine hh.exe file.chm' command (chm are okay with a native viewer, like gnochm) Is there a way to make it works ?