From andy_liaw at merck.com  Wed Oct 26 18:13:55 2005
From: andy_liaw at merck.com (Liaw, Andy)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:13:55 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Microsoft help files
Message-ID: <39B6DDB9048D0F4DAD42CB26AAFF0AFAFED51D@usctmx1106.merck.com>

> From: Hin-Tak Leung
> 
> 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

Personally my order of preference is

  CHM > plain text > HLP

Isn't it true that even MS is moving away from HLP?

Andy



[Rd] Microsoft help files
Liaw, Andy