Hi, I frequently need to open multiple help pages in R, which requires the start of multiple R sessions. I am wondering if there is a way to invoke the help page from the command line just like 'man'. Regards, Peng
Hi, On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Peng Yu wrote:> Hi, > > I frequently need to open multiple help pages in R, which requires the > start of multiple R sessions. I am wondering if there is a way to > invoke the help page from the command line just like 'man'.I haven't been paying attention, but are you working on a machine with a windowing system + browser? If so, set your help files to be seen in the browser: R> option(htmlhelp=TRUE) next time you ask for some ?help, it should pop up a browser window. Good enough? -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Peng Yu<pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I frequently need to open multiple help pages in R, which requires the > start of multiple R sessions. I am wondering if there is a way to > invoke the help page from the command line just like 'man'.If you are feeling adventurous, you might try out the Qt Assistant interface described at http://qtinterfaces.r-forge.r-project.org/ (not command-line, but a standalone application that doesn't need R except the first time). -Deepayan
On Tue, 11-Aug-2009 at 02:43PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
|> Hi,
|>
|> I frequently need to open multiple help pages in R, which requires the
|> start of multiple R sessions. I am wondering if there is a way to
|> invoke the help page from the command line just like 'man'.
If you use ESS (with Emacs) you can have any number of help pages open
each within its own Emacs buffer. It works even using Windows.
That's at least as good as reading man pages.
HTH
|>
|> Regards,
|> Peng
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