After reading the news about the release of R 2.10 I expected that typing for example ?cut would automatically open a web browser. But I don't see any difference in how help is displayed under Ubuntu Linux (karmic). How does one activate the new dynamic html help? Thanks Frank platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu arch x86_64 os linux-gnu system x86_64, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 10.0 year 2009 month 10 day 26 svn rev 50208 language R version.string R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:> After reading the news about the release of R 2.10 I expected that > typing for example ?cut would automatically open a web browser. But > I don't see any difference in how help is displayed under Ubuntu > Linux (karmic). How does one activate the new dynamic html help? > > Thanks > FrankFrank, Set: options(help_type="html") in your .Rprofile file. See ?options and ?help for more info. Regards, Marc