[ESS] R - Help buffer

[gerald.jean at dgag.ca]

Hello,

I am a long time user of Splus through ESS (thanks for such a good
package), mostly on Unix/Linux machines.  Recently we have installer R on
our Linux Red Hat machine.  R started right out of the box with "M-x R".  I
have a hard time though getting the help pages show up in an Emacs buffer?

When running Splus through ESS, C-c C-v will prompt me for a help topic and
when I type a topic it will show up in a new Emacs buffer, exactly what I
want.

But when I run R through ESS, C-c C-v will still prompt me for a help topic
but when I type a topic what shows up in the *help[R] fct. name* buffer is:

Error in help("glm", pager = "slynx -dump", window = F) :
  unused argument(s) (window = FALSE)

I tried setting the "pager" and the "help.pager" options to "emacsclient",
as they are when running Splus but to no avail, I still get the same error.

By typing

> help.start()

I can still get the HTML browser interface to help but I do prefer Emacs'
buffers by a long shot.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Gérald Jean
Conseiller senior en statistiques,
VP Planification et Développement des Marchés,
Desjardins Groupe d'Assurances Générales
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