R help - Aug 2009 - How to show help in the same mode as where the commands is input?

Hi,

In R command line, when I type "help(something)", it will always show
the help in the different mode such that I don't see command lines
anymore but just the help document. If I quit from the help mode, I
will only see the command lines by not the help document.

I would like the help document and command lines be show in the same
mode. I'm wondering how to do so.

Regards,
Peng

Hi,

You can define your own pager:

Something like this might do what you want:

dump.pager <- function( files, ...){
	cat( readLines( files ), sep = "\n" )
}
options( pager = dump.pager )

Romain

On 08/06/2009 08:59 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In R command line, when I type "help(something)", it will always
show
> the help in the different mode such that I don't see command lines
> anymore but just the help document. If I quit from the help mode, I
> will only see the command lines by not the help document.
>
> I would like the help document and command lines be show in the same
> mode. I'm wondering how to do so.
>
> Regards,
> Peng
>

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