[ESS] ess-mode 5.3.7; R 2.7.0; help is not creating a help buffer
Marcus, Jeffrey
Jeffrey.Marcus at nuance.com
Tue Apr 29 20:44:24 CEST 2008
Mysteriously this started working on 2.7.0 so there is apparently no
problem.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Eglen [mailto:S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:04 PM
To: Marcus, Jeffrey
Cc: Ess-help
Subject: [ESS] ess-mode 5.3.7; R 2.7.0; help is not creating a help
buffer
Marcus, Jeffrey writes:
> I just upgraded from Version R-2.4.1 to R-2.7.0 on Windows XP.
> When I invoked the new version of R from Emacs 22.2.1 (using
> Vincent Goulet's Emacs distribution) and tried getting help on the
> R matrix function, a buffer was created with the usual name
> *help[R](matrix}* was created but it was empty. This is true for
> all functions I tried whether i used help() or ? and it was true
> for Ess 5.3.5, 5.3.6, and 5.3.7.
Hi Marcus, can you confirm that you get desired behaviour in R
2.6.x, but not 2.7.0?
Stephen
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