On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, but as these are links you can bookmark the places they link to.
Oh, and the reason we now do it this way is that you can have two simultaneous R sessions with quite different library trees, possibly different versions of R running on different machines. > On 3 Jan 2003, Michael A. Miller wrote: > > > The help for help.start says that > > > > "All the packages in the known library trees are linked to > > directory `.R' in the per-session temporary directory. The > > links are re-made each time help.start is run, which should be > > done after packages are installed, updated or removed." > > > > It used to be the case that this was the temporary directory was > > the .R directory in my home directory, but since I've upgraded to > > R 6.1, the help files are stored in /tmp/Rtmpxxx/.R, where > > Rtmpxxx is the result of a call to tempdir. A side effect of > > this is that they are removed when ever I exit R and recreated > > when I start R and run help.start again. I like to be able to > > have a couple book marks to my favorite parts of the help pages, > > but since the tempdir is different for each instance of R, that > > no longer works. Is there a way to configure R to leave the help > > pages in a static location such as ~/.R? Even if they get > > recreated each time I run help.start, I'd rather they always > > showed up in the same place. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
