[ESS] Problem getting help window to appear within Emacs

[Munawar Cheema]

Thanks Vitalie,
I mentioned cygwin for completeness but I don't think it should matter. 
Emacs is the Vincent Goulet version for Windows and R is from Cran.  I
am not launching from a terminal running bash so there really shouldn't
be any interaction.

Regards
Munawar




On 04/05/2012 17:05, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> What does getOption("help_type") in R says? Set it to "text": 
> options(help_type = "text")
>
>
> It looks like you are running ddeclent (is this how it should be on
> cygwin?). I hope Rich can help you better here.
>
>
>>>>> Munawar Cheema <mcheema at btinternet.com>
>>>>> on Fri, 4 May 2012 16:46:14 +0100 wrote:
>   > Ali, It is already set to nil.
>   > I didn't mention the first time I type ?ls I get a beep and only on the
>   > second and subsequent attempts do I get a pop up GUI window.
>
>   > Here is some gobbledegook I get out in the *ESS* buffer if it helps.
>
>   > Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog C:/Program
>   > Files/R/R-2.14.2/bin/i386/Rterm.exe
>   >  Start File=nil, Args= --ess  .
>   > (ess-multi 2): waiting for process to start (before hook)*ddeclient-p:
>   > ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(ess-multi 2): waiting for process after
>   > hook(R): inferior-ess-language-start=options(STERM='iESS',
>   > str.dendrogram.last ="'", editor='gnuclient.exe')
>   > *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(R): version (2.14.2)
>   > *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'resetting completion to
>   > 'ess-R-complete-object-name*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is
>   > 'R'*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name
>   > is 'R'*ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL):
>   > language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil,
>   > comint..sender=comint-simple-send
>   > *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'(ess-help: error-buffer
>   > '*help[R](ls)*' nodocs (1 1)
>   > *ddeclient-p: ess-loc-proc-name is 'R'
>
>   > Best Regards
>   > Munawar Cheema
>
>   > On 04/05/2012 15:50, Ali Tofigh wrote:
>   >> have you tried setting the variable ess-help-own-frame to nil?
>   >> 
>   >> /ali
>   >> 
>   >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Munawar Cheema <mcheema at btinternet.com> wrote:
>   >>> I am struggling to figure out why I can't get my help window in an emacs
>   >>> frame/window.  I have used earlier versions of ESS and R without any
>   >>> trouble but just came back after a hiatus and embarrassingly can't
>   >>> figure out this seemingly trivial problem.
>   >>> 
>   >>> I first start emacs -Q
>   >>> then Eval: (require 'ess-site)
>   >>> M-x R
>   >>> After this I then enter a command such as ?ls or help(ls) will pop up a
>   >>> window in the Window Manager and not in emacs.  How can I get the window
>   >>> to appear in emacs instead?  I have tried searching for an answer
>   >>> without luck so I am asking the list.
>   >>> 
>   >>> Thanks in advance
>   >>> Munawar Cheema
>   >>> 
>   >>> Version Information
>   >>> OS: Windows 7 64-bit with  Cygwin
>   >>> ESS 12.04 and R 2.14.2
>   >>> GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
>   >>> of 2012-02-04 on MARVIN
>   >>> 
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