[ESS] no S4 help under Windows XP

[Erik Iverson]

FYI, ?setClass works for me on both Windows and Solaris using GNU
Emacs 22 (not vincent goulet's) and ESS 5.4.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Stephen Eglen
<S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 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
>
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