R help - Mar 2009 - turning of html help

Hi

I've just upgraded my version of R. I'm used to having the help pages
turn up on a simple text window, and not html. Now it seems that when I call a
help page it starts up a browser, and says it can't find the manual
page(probably since I didn't install html help).

I guess there is some option somewhere that turns of html help and goes back to
the simple version. What is this, and how do I permanently enable it?

I promise I did look around on the web for this  but couldn't find the
answer.


Thanks Simon Bond


      
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simon bond wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've just upgraded my version of R. I'm used to having the help
pages turn up on a simple text window, and not html. Now it seems that when I
call a help page it starts up a browser, and says it can't find the manual
page(probably since I didn't install html help).
> 
> I guess there is some option somewhere that turns of html help and goes
back to the simple version. What is this, and how do I permanently enable it?
> 
> I promise I did look around on the web for this  but couldn't find the
answer.
See ?options on how to enable / disable help systems and ?Startup on how 
to do it each time on startup.

Uwe Ligges
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> Thanks Simon Bond
> 
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