[R] Cannot activate chm help in R 2.10

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/27/2009 10:56 AM, Ulrike Groemping wrote:
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> 
> Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote:
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>> Ulrike Groemping wrote:
>> ...
>>> My system is Windows XP, German locale computer. On installation, I was
>>> asked to decide for text or html help and chose html (there was no radio
>>> button for chm help).  
>> ...
>> 
>> If you set
>> 
>> options(help_type="html")
>> 
>> you'll get HTML help with links in your default browser.
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
>> 
>> 
> 
> Thank you very much, this works. But I am very surprised that it is not the
> default. Having chosen html help during installation, I would have expected
> this to be active without having to change an option.

Yes, it should have been, but there was a bug in the installer, and the 
preference indicated there was ignored. This is why it's useful to have 
people doing testing during the beta test period:  things like this are 
easy to fix, but they need to be noticed first.

Duncan Murdoch