On 07/01/2010 2:16 PM, Kevin Wright wrote:
Well, among other things, if my global environment becomes
cluttered/corrupt/etc and I quit R, then restart R, the links in my browser
are now dead.
You weren't following Dieter's instructions, then.
I have to close all the tabs and call help to open them
again. Also, the R-supplied java tool for searching help is ancient and
underwhelming.
Then contribute a new one.
A desktop search tool (X1/Copernic/GoogleDesktop/etc) can be
very handy, but only if it has pre-built help files to index. Imperfect,
stale, non-dynamic help is better than no help at all!
Then fix the search tool so it can search dynamic web pages. They can
be spidered too, just like static ones.
Duncan Murdoch
As others have done, I have switched back to 2.9.2 until I can build all
help files (on Windows). Thanks to those people who are figuring out how to
do this.
Kevin
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 11:36 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>
>> For what it is worth, I would gladly sacrifice this capability in
>> order to be able to consult all my R help pages through a Firefox
>> bookmark to the packages listing (which is what I used to do, and will
>> do again, when I get time to either rebuild from source or get the
>> forthcoming Fedora RPM, which will have static pages as the default),
>> without starting an R session.
>>
>>
>
> What's so hard about leaving an R session running, and using bookmarks as
> Dieter described?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> Jon
>>
>> On 01/07/10 10:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> > A more useful example than ls() would be methods(). I think it would >
>> be nice to have a list of methods included in the man page for a generic >
>> function, and links to their pages if they have their own man pages. > You
>> might want to list all installed methods, with some sort of > highlighting
>> to indicate which ones are already attached, or perhaps be > able to toggle
>> between installed and attached, or whatever. None of > that is possible
>> with static help, not even a list of installed methods, > because someone
>> might install a new package that offers some others > after the static help
>> has already been built.
>> > > You just need to use some imagination.
>> > > Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
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