In R "help(package=pkg)" or "library(help=pkg)" seems to behave like 'more' or 'less' or something that looks like one of these. Under RedHat this behaves normally: at the end of help it reverts automatically to the R prompt '>'. In SuSe it doesn't jump back to the prompt automatically: I see something like "line 1/28 (end)" and then I have to type a 'q' just like with 'less'. The result is that the help text disappears. This is rather irritating. Can somebody explain what might be happening so that I can attempt to fix it if possible. ------------------------------------- Alexander Volovics Dept of Methodology & Statistics Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL ------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
alexander volovics <awol at STAT.UNIMAAS.NL> writes:> In R "help(package=pkg)" or "library(help=pkg)" seems to behave > like 'more' or 'less' or something that looks like one of these. > > Under RedHat this behaves normally: at the end of help it reverts > automatically to the R prompt '>'. > In SuSe it doesn't jump back to the prompt automatically: > I see something like "line 1/28 (end)" and then I have to type > a 'q' just like with 'less'. The result is that the help text > disappears. > > This is rather irritating. Can somebody explain what might be > happening so that I can attempt to fix it if possible.Sounds as if SuSE is having more aliased to less (or sets the PAGER env. variable)? The screen clear "feature" of less can be disabled by the LESS environment variable. Try LESS=-XE R -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._