[ESS] R - Help buffer - new information

[gerald.jean at dgag.ca]

Hello there,

after I sent the last message I killed Emacs and restarted it with the "-q"
option (no .emacs file); then I manually loaded ess-site and then started
R.  Now if I do C-c C-v to get help on a function I do get the help in an
Emacs buffer.  I think this is sufficient to conclude that the problem lies
in my initialization file.  Over the years I collected a lot of stuff in
there, I probably won't be easy to find the culpright, but that is my
problem.

Thanks to Stephen and Martin for their help, and also to all contributors
for such a good package,

Gérald

ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch a écrit sur 2008/10/21 05:01:08 :

> >>>>> "gj" == gerald jean <gerald.jean at dgag.ca>
> >>>>>     on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:44:04 -0400 writes:
>
>     gj> ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch a écrit sur 2008/10/20
11:07:29 :
>
>     >> gerald.jean at dgag.ca wrote:
>     >>
>     >> > 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.
>     >>
>     >> hmmm... there may be leakage from the lisp code for splus help
into the
>     >> lisp code  for R help help; R shouldn't need the pager to be
> set, and so
>     >> seeing pager = 'sylnx -dump' is the probable cause of the error.
>     >>
>     >> Can you try a new emacs session, start R and then try C-c
>     >> C-v?  (i.e. don't start S).  Also, take out any settings
>     >> for pager and help.pager from your .emacs, if it still
>     >> doesn't work.
>
>     gj> I restarted Emacs, did not start Splus and started R: same result
as
>     gj> before.
>
>     gj> I am not seeing any settings for "pager" and "help.pager" inmy
.emacs?
>
> In any case, the  'pager = "slynx -dump"'  part is definitely
> the culprit and it definitely is a leak from "S+ code for ESS"
> (I'm pretty sure I had added to ESS aeons ago).
>
> So, something in your Emacs initialization (typically inside
> ~/.emacs, but there are other possibilities) is the culprit.
>
> Try the following:
>
> 1) Start Emacs
> 2) M-x R
> 3) C-h v ess-customize-alist
>
> Should give about 20 lines of output in a *Help* buffer.
> One of these 20+ lines is particularly interesting; for me it is
>
>  (inferior-ess-help-command . "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=FALSE)\n")
>
> and I bet that for you, it will contain the ominous "slynx ..."
> part.
> yes ?
>
> Martin
>
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