On Thursday 15 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > [...] > >>>> help.start() > >> > >> I got it. > >> Perhaps it would be useful to have another startup option, something > >> like: options(htmlLinksResolve=TRUE) > >> > >> that one could use in the .First() function from .Rprofile > > > > You could have a function to run there, essentially (from help.start()) > > > > .Script("sh", "help-links.sh", > > paste(tempdir(), paste(.libPaths(), collapse = " "))) > > > > and perhaps (it is a lot slower) > > > > utils::make.packages.html() > > It transpires that currently you do need both: although the script is > passed the library locations it does not make use of them, leaving the > linking to make.packages.html. (That used not to be the case.) > > > The problem is that even the first can be slow on a network-mounted file > > system with a lot of packages installed, do we don't want to do it by > > default. > > So speed is the problem: I am seeing about 4 secs on a system with 1450 > packages on the local disc, and 33 secs on a slower system with > network-mounted FS.
Completely understandable, it's not going to be automatic. Users who don't suffer from these restrictions could manually make use of the script. Thank you very much, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel