similar to: crash after help(..., chmhelp=TRUE) (PR#562)

I cannot seem to get compiled help working with XP in neither 1.6 or 1.61. The ReadMe.rw1061 specifies: (ii) Compiled HTML files. Set this as the default by options(chmhelp=TRUE) or for individual help items by help(topic, chmhelp=TRUE). Full text search is available from the Search tab. According to Microsoft, to make use of this you will need to have IE3 or later installed and a recent version

Hi all, Here's a curosity I ran into since upgrading to 1.6.2 (precompiled for Windows). When using the chm help I get the following warning. I saw a recent post regarding this as a new warning (``dyn.load warning message in R1.6.2 on Windows XP'' dated 1/28/03), but not in the context of the help system. The warning only appears once and does not prevent the chm file from

A binary distribution of R-0.64.2 for Windows is available at <CRAN>/bin/windows/windows-NT (at least at Wien). Enjoy it. guido masarotto Windows News (since R0.64.2) rw0651 ====== New function savePlot() to save plots to wmf, gif or ps. There is now support for help via compiled HTML files (as used by the latest Microsoft products): set options(chmhelp=TRUE) to

A binary distribution of R-0.64.2 for Windows is available at <CRAN>/bin/windows/windows-NT (at least at Wien). Enjoy it. guido masarotto Windows News (since R0.64.2) rw0651 ====== New function savePlot() to save plots to wmf, gif or ps. There is now support for help via compiled HTML files (as used by the latest Microsoft products): set options(chmhelp=TRUE) to

A binary distribution of R-0.64.2 for Windows is available at <CRAN>/bin/windows/windows-NT (at least at Wien). Enjoy it. guido masarotto Windows News (since R0.64.2) rw0651 ====== New function savePlot() to save plots to wmf, gif or ps. There is now support for help via compiled HTML files (as used by the latest Microsoft products): set options(chmhelp=TRUE) to

Hello, as I just spent a (too long) while searching for a way how to persistantly switch back the help display routines from chm to text, here a small documentation how to do that with the windows version of R. The windows installer asks which help type you want to use, I wanted to test the chm version -- which I didn't like. If you after installation want to switch back, you have to edit

Hi I tried to customize help(), so it starts the compiled html help, and searches in all packages. I wrote the following function: > my.help function(topic){ help(topic, package=.packages(all=T), lib.loc=.lib.loc, chmhelp=T) } When I use it with >my.help(help) give the following error: Error in help(topic, package = .packages(all = T), lib.loc = .lib.loc, : No documentation

R-2.0.0, WinNT / WinXP: options(chmhelp=TRUE) ?dnorm # does not work! ?Normal # works! Looks like calling compiled html help does not work for aliases, but only for the title of help pages... And a quick fix without changing the design is to change lines 136-137 in .../src/library/utils/R/help.R as follows: - err <- .C("Rchtml", hlpfile, topic, - err =

Dear R Users, I've installed R with the chm option, but eventually I found I am more used to the normal way of latex help. Is there any argument to suppress chm help by default when starting R? So that I don't have to type something like >help(rle,chmhelp=NULL) I know the last resort would be to reinstall R. Thanks in advance! - J

When I try e.g. help(as.symbol, chmhelp = TRUE) I get an error message in the help viewer (translated to english: "The page cannot be shown"). This happens for all aliased topics (i.e. aliased in the *.Rd file). So I have to know the "unaliased" name (here: "name") to get chtml help. Is it possible to get the behavior of "plain text help" (no problems

Hi all, I was playing with R-devel 2005-03-08 on winXP Pro (installed from Duncan's installer). My .Rprofile contains: options(defaultPackages=c(getOption("defaultPackages"), "mypkg"), chmhelp=TRUE) but "mypkg" has not yet been installed in the library/ directory of this installation. When Rgui starts, I do not get any error or warning, but upon

Dear list members (esp. Duncan), I've run into the following curious problem with Version 2.2.0 alpha for Windows: Options in the Profile file in R's etc directory don't appear to be set. (I habitually uncomment options(chmhelp=TRUE), to no effect in this case.) As far as I can see, the only thing non-standard about my installation is that I put R 2.2.0 alpha under c:\R rather than

To: Windows Users ----------------- We would appreciate your comments on future possibilities for help on Windows systems. I have put up a pre-test version based on the current R-release snapshot at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/rwtest999.zip (ca 4.5Mb) ftp://ftp.stats.ox.ac.uk/.... (999 means Sept 1999, BTW). This has (i) text help (ii) HTML help to be viewed in Netscape/IE*

Describe fails for me with a message similar to what was an issue in 2008 and got fixed according to posts. R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) # output truncated > options(chmhelp = FALSE, help_type = "text") > .help.ESS <- help >

Hello. I am using R 1.7.1 just downloaded on Win98. With the old 1.6.2 I had modified the etc/Rprofile file as etc/Rprofile # Things you might want to change # options(width=80) # options(papersize="a4") # options(editor="notepad") # options(pager="internal") # to prefer Compiled HTML help options(chmhelp=TRUE) # to prefer HTML help # options(htmlhelp=TRUE) # to

I've recently updated to R 2.4 and have noticed that when I type ?help.on.something in ESS from within emacs, the old text help doesn't show up in the "other" (other being the horizontally split windows) window. Instead the windows chm help file pops up. Is there any way to get R to revert back to the old "simple text based help in the top window" help? I couldn't

[wparish@localhost inex5]$ wine --version Wine 20040813 That was a Mandrake 10.0 rpm installation, over which I installed Wine-20050211.tar.gz This is the relevant history: [wparish@localhost wine-hdd]$ cd ie6 [wparish@localhost ie6]$ ls ADVAUTH.CAB* IECIF.CAB* IEMIL_2.CAB* IEW2K_1.CAB* OEEXCEP.CAB* AOLSUPP.CAB* IEDATA.CAB* IEMIL_3.CAB* IEW2K_2.CAB* README.CAB* AXA3.CAB*

Hi, I encountered this problem just before the 2.2.0 release. Then it went away for a while and came back at the beginning of this week. Here is what is happening (I am on Win2000 machine with all the necessary tools installed). I compile R-devel and R-patched trees every couple of days and install them in separate directories. Everything seems to work fine for R-patched. Compilation of

Hello list, I have encountered a problem trying to save graphs using the R-graphics menu: File|Save as. The menu suggests that files may be saved as either Metafile, Postscript, pdf, png, bmp, jpeg. When I specify any of those file formats a menu comes up requesting a file name. After providing a name R invariably hangs and has to be restarted. I am able to save files under the various

I hesitate to report this one because it is very likely system dependent, and I have very little faith in my browser. Still, it may point to something useful for someone to know. On NT4, after help.start() brings up the web interface just fine (despite the pessimistic warning on the terminal; is that still necessary?), I can do apparaently anything in the help system, except search. If I'm