similar to: request to make --enable-prebuilt-html the default build on linux

I'm not 100% sure this hasn't been covered already (I searched a bit, but I had a little trouble filtering down to a useful number of useful results). Anyway, when I install R on Windows, the installer asks to set the default help type. For some reason, I can set it as HTML in the installer, but the results open as if help_type = "text" by default. I presume this is related to

It used to be that, whenever I added or updated a new package, the file /usr/lib/R/doc/html/packages.html would be updated (on Linux). Now I find that this does not happen anymore. So I found this function make.packages.html, which seems to do what I think should be done automatically. But it puts its output in a file in /tmp/..., which I then have to move, in an extra step, to where it should

Having loaded a package that masks an object from another package, calling help(conflictedname, help_type = 'html') instead of producing a page giving the choices of help page available The page produced is Error in httpd("/library/NULL/help/nobs", NULL, NULL, c(48, 6f, 73, 74, : replacement has length zero This example is reproduced using library(gdata) help(nobs,

Hi, I have options(help_type="html") in my .Rprofile and when I type ?foo, the man page appears as a new tab in my web browser (which is already running). Fine. However, when I type ??foo, rather than the results appearing in a new tab, a new instance of the web browser is spawned with the default homepage displayed. Same with help.search("foo"). Am I the only one seeing this?

Hi folks, R on ESS Why it is unable to pop up help manual on "R on ESS"? ?layout Error in help("layout", htmlhelp = FALSE) : unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALS ?plot Error in help("plot", htmlhelp = FALSE) : unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALSE) etc. But they work on R console and popup the manual without problem. TIA B.R. Stephen L

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 >

I get this error on one computer running Fedora Core 5 but not on another one, when I start R from Xemacs using ESS. After I get the error with Xemacs, I get it even without using Xemacs. I haven't tried all possibilities, because I have found discussion of this problem on the R-devel mailing list, so clearly some people understand it. (Not me.) I'm posting here in case someone has a

This is the first time that I have tried to update packages with a tinkered around with .Rprofile. I start R with R --vanilla and it does not load my .Rprofile, but when I issue the command update.packages() R downloads the packages as expected, but then seems to load .Rprofile before compiling the packages sources. What am I doing wrong? kindest regards, Stephen Sefick see- Session info

After a clean install of R 4.0.0 (R-base only) on Mint 19.3, the directory /usr/lib/R/library/base/html is empty. However, the directory /usr/lib/R/library/boot/html contains files 00Index.html and R.css. Correspondingly, the command help(package="base", help_type="html") produces the text "No package index found for package base". The same occurs when clicking

In a recent post, I reported that help.start worked with Mozilla, although it had not worked before. I now have discovered the difference. I'm using RH Linux 7.1 and Mozilla 0.9.5 and R 1.3.1. When I tried it before, I had use ESS to start R. If I run R without ESS, help.start() will start the browser (Mozilla), but help(apply), for example, will produce help in ESS but not in the browser.

Just a report for those who want to try this. (Executive summary: It eventually worked.) The RPM for Fedora Core 1 did not work because it wanted libtcl8.3.so and libtk8.3.so, while this distribution had 8.4 instead of 8.3. I didn't try making soft links, thus pretending that it had 8.3. (I'm planning to install the final version of Core 2 when it comes out soon. This is a computer I

I noticed about a couple weeks ago that my R start up script starting showing the below errors, following the line "Type 'q()' to quit R" Not sure what I did different and so far it hasn't caused major problems but kind of fear that it will. Can you please help? I also posted my Rprofile below. Attempting to load the environment 'package:R.utils' R.methodsS3 v1.2.2

Hi all Just this morning I upgraded to R 2.12.0 (for Mac OS X 10.6.4). All went well until I needed to run a help() or help.search() in my session, which I'm running within Emacs (ESS 5.3.7). Say I need help with the command 'density'. When I type help(density) or ?density the ESS help buffer opens, it is titled *help[R](density)* but it contains only a couple of lines saying,

All, 1. I will try and make this clear and concise. Please let me know any information that would be helpful in figuring out this problem (I don't know the relevant information to post). I am on linux- see below for session information. 2. Problem: working directory: home an old version of a function is sourced into the R session and doesn't work working directory: Desktop the

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

Hello: A call to help(..., help_type='text') fails with "package='fda": > install.packages('fda') > help(package='fda', help_type='text') Error in formatDL(nm, txt, indent = max(nchar(nm, "w")) + 3) : incorrect values of 'indent' and 'width' I have this wrapped inside "try" in

Hi, I' using Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 and on both of the systems help doesn't work unless I set options(help_type="html"). I hate to change context and help_type='html' distracts me. I want text based help inside console. Where should I look to fix this problem? -- Amol

This error can arise when getOption("width") is too small. 80 seems to be the limit for me with R-3.3.2 on Windows. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote: > Hello: > > > I tried "debug(help)" with the problem mentioned below. It stopped > with a call to

Dear all Shouldn't this start the html help for the chosen package? > help(package="boot", help_type = "html") Instead, the text version is displayed in less (I believe). However, I have no issues to start the html help with the following. > help.start() starting httpd help server ... done If 'xdg-open' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must

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