I found the option in ?options and just tried it with Firefox and Google Chrome and they do seem a bit faster than IE.
options(browser = function(x) shell(paste("start firefox", x))) ?help options(browser = function(x) shell(paste("%LocalAppData%\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe", x))) ?help.search On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Peter Ehlers <ehl...@ucalgary.ca> wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> >> wrote: >>> >>> What is it that you particularly liked about the CHM help? One thing it >>> did >>> well was the table of contents at the side, and the built-in search. I >>> would like to get those back, in the HTML help. Is there anything else? >>> >> >> The main thing I miss is the speed. On my Vista system with IE8 it >> seems to come up slower than the chm based help. >> >> Has anyone tried it with a text-based browser such as lynx to see if >> it runs faster that way? Is there an option to specify which browser >> to use for help? >> > Gabor, am I right in assuming that the speed problem is for the > first time you use help? I start Firefox whenever I start R. I don't > see much of a speed hit after that. > > -Peter Ehlers > >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel