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Hi there. R v1.3.0, Slackware linux 7.1 or Windows 98SE, PII 266, 64Mb RAM. I notice that under windows, R puts help info (ie. the response to '?<function>') into a new window, whereas under linux, it puts it into the main console window. I find the former much more helpful when checking a function's syntax. Is there a simple way of configuring R under linux to put its help

Hi, I would like to view matrices I am working with in a clean, easy to read, separate window. A friend showed me how to do something like I want with edit(). I can view the matrix in the 'R Data Editor': For a sample matrix: > mat=matrix(1:15,ncol=3) > mat [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 6 11 [2,] 2 7 12 [3,] 3 8 13 [4,] 4 9 14 [5,] 5 10 15