[ESS] text help in R.2.5.1 does not display

[Henric Nilsson (Public)]

Charles C. Berry said the following on 2007-07-12 02:18:

> This problem has been around for a while.
> 
> 
>  	http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.ess.general/2006-12/msg00032.html

The current version of ESS (5.3.4) set `options(chmhelp = TRUE)' by 
itself at start-up time.


HTH,
Henric



> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Richard Arnold wrote:
> 
>> I've just upgraded to R-2.5.1 -
>> when I request help about a function - e.g. ?plot - a help window opens
>> up as usual (e.g. *help[R](plot)*) - but it empty
>>
>> Has this happened to anyone else?
>>
>> I'm using emacs 21.3.1 and ESS 5.2.0 running under Windows XP
>> Thanks
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dr Richard Arnold
>> Senior Lecturer in Statistics
>> School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
>> Victoria University of Wellington
>> PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
>>
>> Tel: +64-4-463 5668
>> Fax: +64-4-463 5045
>> http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
>>
> 
> Charles C. Berry                            (858) 534-2098
>                                              Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
> E mailto:cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu	            UC San Diego
> http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/  La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901
> 
> ______________________________________________
> ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
>