I would like to use Rterm in Windows XP and have the help files appear in text format in the terminal rather than in the html popup window. For example, I would like to enter help(lm) and get the text to appear in the terminal window. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Thanks and Happy Hew Year. Tom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/text-rather-than-html-help-in-Windows-tp21251223p21251223.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Tom La Bone wrote:> I would like to use Rterm in Windows XP and have the help files appear in > text format in the terminal rather than in the html popup window. For > example, I would like to enter help(lm) and get the text to appear in the > terminal window. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Thanks and Happy Hew > Year. > > Tom >You can ask to use the console as your pager to by typing options(pager="console") or even use it in some Rprofile, if you need it more frequently. Best, Uwe Ligges
On 02/01/2009 8:11 AM, Tom La Bone wrote:> I would like to use Rterm in Windows XP and have the help files appear in > text format in the terminal rather than in the html popup window. For > example, I would like to enter help(lm) and get the text to appear in the > terminal window. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Thanks and Happy Hew > Year.That's the default. You probably have options(htmlhelp=TRUE) set; just change it to options(htmlhelp=FALSE). (You might need to set options(chmhelp=FALSE); I can't tell from your description which help version you're seeing.) Duncan Murdoch
On 02/01/2009 8:11 AM, Tom La Bone wrote:> I would like to use Rterm in Windows XP and have the help files appear in > text format in the terminal rather than in the html popup window. For > example, I would like to enter help(lm) and get the text to appear in the > terminal window. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Thanks and Happy Hew > Year.Whoops, sorry, Uwe's advice is right. Text help is only the default when run outside a console; I use Cygwin, which doesn't look like a console to R. Duncan Murdoch