[ESS] no S4 help under Windows XP

[Stephen Eglen]

> I installed Goulet's package awhile ago, and am running ESS 5.3.10,
> emacs 22.3.1 and R 2.8.1.  I started an R session with M-X R.  I don't
> think I've made any customizations to R/ESS.
> 
> ?setClass
> or 
> ?Classes
> gets me an empty buffer *help[R](setClass)*.
> 
> Could anyone suggest a solution or diagnosis?  (Well, other than my
> short-term fix of working in Linux--the data I'll need is on Windows and
> needs to stay there).

hi Ross, can I just confirm -- you find that

?setClass

works on linux

but not on windows?

Does life get any easier if you add:

(setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")

to your .emacs which should then start help windows in a web browser?

Stephen