[R] Problem with help() respectively ?

Uwe Ligges
Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:12:04 -0000

Werner Wernersen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with my the R help system. I have
> been searching through the help archives but I can't
> find anything about it and I don't know how to specify
> my search better.
>
> When I type for instance "?hist", just the next
> command line prompt shows but nothing actually
> happens. There is no help window coming up.
>
> I already tried reinstalling R (2.2.1, windows XP) but
> that didn't change anything. I am pretty sure the help
> has been working before on this machine.
>
> Has anybody an idea how to recover the help system?



Which help format do you use?

What about
   help("help", chmhelp=FALSE, htmlhelp=FALSE, offline=FALSE)
Does this work fo you?

Uwe Ligges



> Thanks for your help,
>   Werner
>
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