[ESS] ? doesn't work

Alan S Barnett alansbarnett at verizon.net
Wed Apr 25 21:14:45 CEST 2012


I was running 5.2.10.  I updated to the latest version, and that fixed 
the problem.
Thanks for the help.

On 04/25/2012 02:50 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>>
>> Search your .emacs for a line containing "htmlhelp", which is a deprecated option (circa R version 2.9.x).
>>
>> You want to replace it with:
>>
>>   (setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", help_type=\"html\")\n")
>>
>> The ability to do this was modified circa ESS 5.5 as I recall.
>>      
> Yes, somewhere around that.
> So your  ESS version must be   *very* *very* antique..
> what does    C-h v ess-version  give
> ?
>
>
>
>    
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc Schwartz
>>
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>    


-- 
Alan



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