[ESS] help screen not working for ESS/R
Marc Schwartz
marc_schwartz at me.com
Fri Nov 19 13:42:04 CET 2010
On Nov 18, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Lucia Lam wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I've just started using Emacs and ESS so please forgive me if this question
> have been answered elsewhere.
> In my inferior R, when I type help("mean"), I get the following error
> message.
>
> Errror in help("mean", htmlhelp = FALSE) :
> unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALSE)
>
> Within emacs, none of my help files will open. Whereas the help files work
> fine in a terminal with R opened.
> I would like to be able to use the R help files within emacs, ideally with
> the help file popping open in another frame. Please help!
>
> <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
> Version 2.16.1)
>> Sys.info()
> sysname "Linux"
> release "2.6.28-19-generic"
> version "#66-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 18:00:58 UTC 2010"
> machine "x86_64"
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Lucia
Lucia,
Put the following in your ~/.emacs file:
(setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", help_type=\"html\")\n")
The argument for html based help changed in R 2.10.0 when the new dynamically generated help pages were implemented.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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