Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
] On Behalf Of alexios Sent: November-01-09 6:05 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034) Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/11/2009 5:47 PM, alexios wrote: Peter Ehlers wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Dewey
-Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of alexios Sent: November-01-09 6:05 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034) Duncan Murdoch wrote

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of alexios Sent: November-01-09 6:05 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034) Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/11/2009 5:47 PM, alexios

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-02 Thread alexios
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/11/2009 5:47 PM, alexios wrote: Peter Ehlers wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-02 Thread John Fox
] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034) Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/11/2009 5:47 PM, alexios wrote: Peter Ehlers wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-02 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM, John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote: I think that there's one more thing to be said in favour of chm help, and that's that its format is familiar to Windows users. I've been using html help on Windows myself for a long time, but before R 2.10.0 recommended chm help

[Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread alexios
Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very convenient, be reinstated...couldn't an online poll have been conducted to gauge the support of this format by window's

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very convenient, be reinstated...couldn't an online poll have been

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Ehlers
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very convenient, be reinstated...couldn't an online

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2009 5:47 PM, alexios wrote: Peter Ehlers wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows,

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
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

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Ehlers
alexios wrote: Peter Ehlers wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 31/10/2009 6:05 PM, alex...@4dscape.com wrote: Full_Name: alex galanos Version: 2.10.0 OS: windows vista Submission from: (NULL) (86.11.78.110) I respectfully request that the chm help support for windows, which was very

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Ehlers
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

Re: [Rd] Request: bring back windows chm help support (PR#14034)

2009-11-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
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)))