[ESS] help in R 2.10 Windows

[Martin Maechler]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 19:20, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 09:54 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>     RossB> ESS's opening message and ess-version variable both
>>     RossB> say 5.5.
>>
>> not good.
> I think I've fixed that; ess-version and the startup message both say
> 5.6.
>
> inferior-ess-help-command is a variable defined in `ess-cust.el'.
> Its value is
> ".help.ESS(\"%s\", help_type=\"text\")\n"
>
> However, ?nlm gets
> Error: could not find function ".help.ESS"
> in the nlm help buffer.

Hmm, .help.ESS  should be defined via R-code that is sent from ESS,
(and depends on the R version in use).
For R >= 2.10.0,   a line
 .help.ESS <- help
>
> Ross
>
>