[ESS] help fails for functions with more than one option

[James W. MacDonald]

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "JimMcD" == James W MacDonald <jmacdon at med.umich.edu>
>>>>>>     on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:26:08 -0500 writes:
> 
>     JimMcD> I have also found this to be helpful: 
> 
>     JimMcD> library(tcltk)
>     JimMcD> ?spec
> 
> Hmm, I've never have a problem with this:
> For me, tcltk was always autoloaded and a popup-window (from
> tcltk) with the menu was displayed; I click and the proper help
> page is opened inside emacs.

Really? I wonder what is wrong with my setup then. I am using

This is GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
  of 2007-07-07 on NEUTRINO

With R-2.6.0

And I have consistent problems with popups not popping. The following 
are consistent for me:

1.) ?something  where the function is in two different packages. 
?hyperGtest from GOstats is a perfect example.

2.) chooseCRANmirror(), which I have tracked down to select.list(). This 
won't work the first time I try. However if I kill it with a c-g c-c c-c 
then I can run it again without problems (e.g. select.list(letters) 
fails, but a c-g c-c c-c and an up arrow will then work).

If I load tcltk first, both will work without problems. But I am _not_ 
getting a tcltk listbox, just the usual Windows one.

Note that this isn't true for either RGui, nor running R directly from a 
DOS prompt. In both of those cases I get the popup without problems.

Best,

Jim



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