R help - Nov 2009 - starting html help for a package?

Dear all
Shouldn't this start the html help for the chosen
package?
> help(package="boot", help_type = "html")
Instead, the text version is displayed in less (I believe). However, I
have no issues to start the html help with the
following.
> help.start()
starting httpd help server ... done
If 'xdg-open' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must
    switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...

The help page states:
"If for some reason HTML help is unavailable (see
?startDynamicHelp?), plain text help will be used instead."

However,
> ?startDynamicHelp
No documentation for 'startDynamicHelp' in specified packages and
libraries:
you could try '??startDynamicHelp'

Am I doing anything wrong? Thank you
Liviu





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Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all
> Shouldn't this start the html help for the chosen package?
>   
>> help(package="boot", help_type = "html")
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The page displayed there was never an HTML page.  In the future it 
probably should be, but it hasn't been implemented
yet.
>
> Instead, the text version is displayed in less (I believe). However, I
> have no issues to start the html help with the following.
>   
>> help.start()
>>     
> starting httpd help server ... done
> If 'xdg-open' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you
must
>     switch to its window.
> Otherwise, be patient ...
>
> The help page states:
> "If for some reason HTML help is unavailable (see
> ?startDynamicHelp?), plain text help will be used instead."
>
> However,
>   
>> ?startDynamicHelp
>>     
> No documentation for 'startDynamicHelp' in specified packages and
libraries:
> you could try '??startDynamicHelp'
>   
It's in the tools package, which you probably hadn't attached.  If you 
followed the advice and used ??, you would have got it.

Duncan Murdoch
> Am I doing anything wrong? Thank you
> Liviu
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