Greetings: I recently installed R 2.11.1 for windows. It seems that there is only online help now. Is there any way to get the local docs? I don't have always-on high-speed internet. thanks, Bob -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/online-documentation-only-tp2400647p2400647.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
try help.start() that starts a local help process (within R) and open your browser to that local location. -c On 08/30/2010 03:53 PM, Bob McCall wrote:> > Greetings: > > I recently installed R 2.11.1 for windows. It seems that there is only > online help now. Is there any way to get the local docs? I don't have > always-on high-speed internet. > > thanks, > Bob
Hi, On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Bob McCall <rcmcll at gmail.com> wrote:> > Greetings: > > I recently installed R 2.11.1 for windows. It seems that there is only > online help now. Is there any way to get the local docs? I don't have > always-on high-speed internet.You don't have to be connected to the internet. You just need an R session running. You'll noticed on first invocation, R will start some web server, eg: R> ?sort starting httpd help server ... done And your web browser will open to: http://127.0.0.1:XXXXX/library/base/html/sort.html Where XXXX is some random port that the current R process has some type of minimal web server running that is used to display the help files ... this assumes that you have options(help_type='html'), or some such. No external internet connection necessary. -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 30/08/2010 3:53 PM, Bob McCall wrote:> Greetings: > > I recently installed R 2.11.1 for windows. It seems that there is only > online help now. Is there any way to get the local docs? I don't have > always-on high-speed internet.The local docs are generated on demand. You use your browser, but you aren't really online. Duncan Murdoch