[ESS] Help from help files of installed packages not shown

[Vincent Goulet]

Le mer. 23 janv. à 17:25, Renger van Nieuwkoop a écrit :

> Hi
> I have Emacs on my Windows X64 machine with ESS installed. If I start
> Emacs, R and ESS on my notebook (WIndows Vista) I can send the line
> "?boot" to R and the help-file of the package boot opens.
> If I do the same on my Windows X64 nothing happens. If I look up, for
> example, "lm" the help appears. It looks like the help files of the
> additional installed packages can't be found by ESS (if I run R as a
> standalone with the GUI, the help on "boot" is shown).
> Any idea what is going wrong here?

Make sure that options("chmhelp") is FALSE on your X64 installation of  
R. You can make it the default; see ?Startup.

>
> Renger
>
> PS. How can I search the archives of ESS-Help (I only found the
> zip-files of the mailing list and no interface)
>
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