From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Tue Nov 24 23:31:13 2009
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:31:13 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Link to pdf documentation from other package ?
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On Nov 24, 2009, at 10:58 , hadley wickham wrote:

>> But the help files are local.  It would seem that this problem would
>> be addressed if the help files were not displayed using http://
>
> But then they couldn't be dynamic.
>
> One solution which would allow both would be to implement a proxy
> within the dynamic help that could point to any file on the file
> system.

That is already implemented but not allowed in unsafe directories for  
security reasons (see previous discussion).

Cheers,
Simon



[Rd] Link to pdf documentation from other package ?
Simon Urbanek