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I've recently updated to R 2.4 and have noticed that when I type ?help.on.something in ESS from within emacs, the old text help doesn't show up in the "other" (other being the horizontally split windows) window. Instead the windows chm help file pops up. Is there any way to get R to revert back to the old "simple text based help in the top window" help? I couldn't

Dear R Users, I've installed R with the chm option, but eventually I found I am more used to the normal way of latex help. Is there any argument to suppress chm help by default when starting R? So that I don't have to type something like >help(rle,chmhelp=NULL) I know the last resort would be to reinstall R. Thanks in advance! - J

Hi all, Here's a curosity I ran into since upgrading to 1.6.2 (precompiled for Windows). When using the chm help I get the following warning. I saw a recent post regarding this as a new warning (``dyn.load warning message in R1.6.2 on Windows XP'' dated 1/28/03), but not in the context of the help system. The warning only appears once and does not prevent the chm file from

I cannot seem to get compiled help working with XP in neither 1.6 or 1.61. The ReadMe.rw1061 specifies: (ii) Compiled HTML files. Set this as the default by options(chmhelp=TRUE) or for individual help items by help(topic, chmhelp=TRUE). Full text search is available from the Search tab. According to Microsoft, to make use of this you will need to have IE3 or later installed and a recent version

Hi list, When I type my question in R console using ? sign (example: ?par, when I want to query for par), the following error message popps up: Error in print.help_files_with_topic("C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.1/library/maps/chm/map") : CHM file could not be displayed I appreciate if any body comes back to me with the solution. Regards, Alireza [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I'd like to develop a simple library in R in which to save my particular functions. I have read the manual on "Writing R Extensions" but it's too difficult. Someone could help me? I want only save my personal function (recorded in R-code, not in C) in "myLibrary" and I want to call it with: >library (myLibrary). After this, the functions should be available

Dear list members (esp. Duncan), I've run into the following curious problem with Version 2.2.0 alpha for Windows: Options in the Profile file in R's etc directory don't appear to be set. (I habitually uncomment options(chmhelp=TRUE), to no effect in this case.) As far as I can see, the only thing non-standard about my installation is that I put R 2.2.0 alpha under c:\R rather than

Hello. I am using R 1.7.1 just downloaded on Win98. With the old 1.6.2 I had modified the etc/Rprofile file as etc/Rprofile # Things you might want to change # options(width=80) # options(papersize="a4") # options(editor="notepad") # options(pager="internal") # to prefer Compiled HTML help options(chmhelp=TRUE) # to prefer HTML help # options(htmlhelp=TRUE) # to

Hi all, I was playing with R-devel 2005-03-08 on winXP Pro (installed from Duncan's installer). My .Rprofile contains: options(defaultPackages=c(getOption("defaultPackages"), "mypkg"), chmhelp=TRUE) but "mypkg" has not yet been installed in the library/ directory of this installation. When Rgui starts, I do not get any error or warning, but upon

Hello! I was just wondering, why only one of my "Rd" files is converted in "chm" format (REGE) and the other are not when installing a package? The output from installing a package on WinXp is below. I tried to find more information about what "chm" format actually is, however have found none. Best regards and thaks for any replies, Ales Ziberna

Hi, Chm (compiled help) is a microsoft invention. It's the default help system under windows, but not so under linux. I found that (at times) I like better how chm help looks. Since there are chm viewers under linux, using chm help files should be possible. Has anybody tried to set R so it opens chm by default? I'm sure there's some flag or Rprofile var that could get this done.

Hi! I tried to use compiled html on the following system: NT4.0 SP6 (with _old_ IE3), R-1.0.1. R > help(ls, chmhelp=TRUE) ... but nothing happens ... >From the R Readme: "To make use of this you will need a recent version of Windows or IE4 or later installed, or use the updater hhupd.exe on CRAN at bin/windows/windows-NT/etc." So I used the updater

Hi I tried to customize help(), so it starts the compiled html help, and searches in all packages. I wrote the following function: > my.help function(topic){ help(topic, package=.packages(all=T), lib.loc=.lib.loc, chmhelp=T) } When I use it with >my.help(help) give the following error: Error in help(topic, package = .packages(all = T), lib.loc = .lib.loc, : No documentation

hello, my name is Roman Pahl and recently i tried to build a package under Windows. I created the skeleton and did alle the documentation stuff. As i wanted to check it using the 'R CMD CHECK pkgname' command in the Dos-= console some errors appeared. I don=B4t know how to handle. Here are important parts of the log: I marked my questions with a "<-------= ---"

R-2.0.0, WinNT / WinXP: options(chmhelp=TRUE) ?dnorm # does not work! ?Normal # works! Looks like calling compiled html help does not work for aliases, but only for the title of help pages... And a quick fix without changing the design is to change lines 136-137 in .../src/library/utils/R/help.R as follows: - err <- .C("Rchtml", hlpfile, topic, - err =

Hello, Apologies in advance if this should be in R-devel, not Rhelp. I did read through the R-devel thread started by Gabor Grothendieck in September of this year - I am getting the exact same error using a new computer that has XP installed, not vista, complaining that the file hhc.exe is not found. I have downloaded the hhc.exe to HTML Help Workshop dir in Program Files but it says that

Hi all, I am using the zoo package to plot time series. I have a problem with formatting the axes. my zoo object (z) looks like the following. c1 1992-01-10 21 1992-01-17 34 1992-01-24 33 1992-01-31 41 1992-02-07 39 1992-02-14 38 1992-02-21 37 1992-02-28 28 1992-03-06 33 1992-03-13 40

Hello, I'm moving from R 2.2.1 (Winows XP) to R 2.5.1 and have problems with installing "myfuncs", which worked OK in 2.2.1 R CMD INSTALL myfuns # gives installing to '' ---------- Making package myfuncs ------------ adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION installing R files installing man source files installing indices installing help >>>

Hello all, I've been working with R & Fridolin Wild's lsa package a bit over the past few months, but I'm still pretty much a novice. I have a lot of files that I want to use to create a semantic space. When I begin to run the initial textmatrix( ), it runs for about 3-4 hours and eventually gives me an error. It's always "ERROR: cannot allocate vector size of xxx

Platform: Windows 98 R version: Version 1.6.1 (2002-11-01) Package 'tseries' version: 0.9-4 Built: R 1.6.0; Win32; Mon Oct 7 14:02:38 2002) (dependanted packages 'quadprog': Built: R 1.5.1; Win32; 2002-07-03 12:20:50) I've just upgraded to R 1.6.1. By typing library(tseries) example(garch) => I've got a crash with the following message: "RGUI a causé une