[ESS] Is it worthy to switch to HTML help type in R?

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 05/16/10 08:15 PM, Stanley Chu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The default help_type in R under ESS is "text". Thus when I type, e.g. ?lm, the help page appears in another buffer. I am wondering how to change this default to "html", so that the result of using ?[function] appears in a browser. I have tried to include options(help_type = "html") in my Rprofile.site, yet it does not work. I still have to use help(functionname, help_type = "html") to make it work.
>
> My thought is the "html" help is more convenient because you can click hyperlinks in the current help page and "jump" to another function help. I wonder how is everyone efficiently using the help.
>
> Thanks for sharing the thoughts.
> Stanley

I usually do that with a help.start()

Rodney