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2010 Aug 04
1
printing html help to the terminal
I'm trying to get help to print the help pages in html format to the
terminal. This is in order to be able to see the html help files remotely.
If I do
printURL = function(file) {a=readLines(url(file));cat(a,sep="\n")}
options(browser=printURL)
options(help_type="html")
then invoking help with
?print
gets stuck. I think what happens is that the web server run by R that allows
one to read help will not work as long as R is waiting for...