[R] No CHM file

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu Jun 4 08:03:37 CEST 2009


Rebecca Sela wrote:
> I just built a package in R (version 2.1.1 on a Linux machine) and then moved it to my computer (R version 2.8.1 on a Windows machine).  When I loaded the package and tried to open help for one of the commands, I got the following warning:
>
> Warning message:
> In print.help_files_with_topic("F:/R/R-2.8.1/library/REEMtree/chm/RMSE") :
>   No CHM help for 'RMSE' in package 'REEMtree' is available:
> the CHM file for the package is missing
>
> The resulting Help shows up as a window within R, instead of as the usual HTML help file.
>
> Is this occurring because the package was built under an older version of R?  Or is there some other way to ensure that the Help files show up properly?
>   

As far as I know there is no help compiler available on Linux, so there 
is no way to build the .chm format file it uses, other than building on 
Windows.

Duncan Murdoch




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