From hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk  Wed Oct 26 16:26:14 2005
From: hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk (Hin-Tak Leung)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:26:14 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Microsoft help files
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Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> I wonder if the software here:
> 
> http://morte.jedrea.com/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/
> 
> or at any of the links on that page might allow elimination of the
> need for separately downloading the Microsoft Help compiler --
> which is just one more task that one must perform to get
> up and running to build your own R packages on Windows.

Actually, why does one need to depend on the Microsoft Help
compiler? The windows build of GNU makeinfo can generate MS
*.hlp file directly. That's more "native" MS windows than CHM
files.

Hin-Tak Leung



[Rd] Microsoft help files
Hin-Tak Leung