[ESS] plain text help with R 2.4.0.

[Henric Nilsson]

Den 2006-10-12 21:01, Francesco Cernuto skrev:
> Francesco Cernuto ha scritto:
>> On my environment,
>>
>> MS Windows XP SP2
>> GNU emacs 22.0.50.1
>> ESS-5.3.3.
>> R 2.4.0.
>>
>> when I request help on any object, through  ?object, help(object) or 
>> `C-c C-v'  I was popped in an empy buffer and, for base package only, I 
>> get a CHM help window with the chosen topic help.
>>
>> Using the option chemhelp=FALSE, (for example : 
>> help(rnorm,package=stats,chmhelp=FALSE), I get a plain text help, but in 
>> the R process windows, not in a new buffer as I wish.
>>
>> With my previous R version (2.3.1) plain text help was the default 
>> display behavior.
>>
>>
>> Thank for any help or suggestions.
>>
>> Francesco Cernuto, MD MSc
>> Siena - Italy
>>
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>>
> 
> I wish to apologise for my malformed question.
> 
> I got a suggestion from R-help list: just simply modifiy the default 
> help format in R-2.4.0  in my R.profile with:
> 
> options(chmhelp=FALSE)

Another option is to re-install R, and choose to customize the startup 
options in the installer.


HTH,
Henric



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> Francesco Cernuto
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