[ESS] R help for S4 not opening in help buffer

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at med.umich.edu
Tue Oct 5 16:24:26 CEST 2010


Hi Vinh,

Try

?matrix-class
?show-methods

Best,

Jim



On 10/4/2010 8:10 PM, Vinh Nguyen wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> With ESS, when we type in something like "?topic" to get help on a
> topic, ESS opens the documentation in a new buffer.  However, with S4
> classes and methods, the documentation gets printed in the console.
> Try:
>
> class?matrix
> method?show("matrix")
>
> Just wanted to bring this up to see if anyone will implement it
> sometime in the near future.  Thanks.
>
> Vinh
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