[ESS] Read R manuals inside emacs

[Tyler Smith]

The manuals are already in Info format, you don't need to convert from html. However, you do need to find out where the files were installed with your distribution, or download them yourself if they weren't included. The details will depend on how you installed R in the first place.

- ty

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On Sun, Mar 6, 2022, at 10:19 AM, Naresh Gurbuxani via ESS-help wrote:
> I am looking for help on creating info files from the available html files.
>
> Hit Send button too fast.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Naresh Gurbuxani <naresh_gurbuxani using hotmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2022 10:17 AM
> To: Dirk Eddelbuettel
> Cc: Emacs ESS
> Subject: Re: [ESS] Read R manuals inside emacs
>
> Thanks everyone for your prompt response.
>
> My R installation does not have info files for R manuals (R-intro) etc.
>
> In the main directory after typing
> C-h i
>
> None of the manuals are displayed.
>
> I need to be create the info files.  After that I am good to go.
>
> Naresh
> ________________________________
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <dirk.eddelbuettel using gmail.com> on behalf of Dirk 
> Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 6, 2022 9:42 AM
> To: Naresh Gurbuxani <naresh_gurbuxani using hotmail.com>
> Cc: Emacs ESS <ess-help using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [ESS] Read R manuals inside emacs
>
>
> On 6 March 2022 at 14:22, Naresh Gurbuxani via ESS-help wrote:
> | On my Mac installation of R, below documents are included in RHOME/doc/manual:
> | R-intro.html
> | R-data.html
> | [others]
> |
> | Is it possible to read them from inside emacs (for example in info)?
>
> Yes, if you have the info files installed. Which I presume is the default; I
> am on Linux where the distribution packages tend to have them. (I look after
> the ess package for Debian/Ubuntu [but that is irrelevant as there are no
> more ess releases, hint, hint, ...]).
>
> I have quite a few:
>
>   edd using rob:~$ ls -1 /usr/share/info/*info*gz | wc -l
>   120
>   edd using rob:~$
>
>
> | One of the files (RHOME/share/man/man1/R.1) says, to access R manuals, type
> | info -f R-intro
> |
> | Where should this command be typed?
>
> C-h i       gets you the list of all manuals the within-emacs info reader
>             knows / are in the standard info location (iirc you can override
>             with env vars, on Linux you generally do no need to)
>
> m R Ex<TAB> then tab-completes to 'R Extensions' and
>
> m R Intro<TAB>   tab-completes to the 'R Introduction'
>
> and so on. There are info-reading keyboard command shortcuts to browse. It is
> actually the main way in which I read / have read / am reading these
> files. (Though the quarto-built ones at https://rstudio.github.io/r-manuals/
> are very nice to link to.)
>
> | Finally, is this the right mailing group for this question?
>
> Sure, why not?
>
> Dirk
>
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