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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,

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

Hi, I am doing a small experiment to test if I can use MathJax ( official site: http://www.mathjax.org ) in R's html help pages (i.e. options(help_type='html')) and it seems working with some minor modifications. The screenshot (rendered by Firefox 4.0 beta and with STIX fonts) of the help page in html format with MathJax enabled is at the following url:

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

I think tools::Rd2HTML has a problem with the dl tag. Under some conditions, <p> and </p>, and <dl> and </dl> are not nested correctly. Here is an example from the "options" doc file: -- <p> <dl> <dt><code>save.defaults</code>, <code>save.image.defaults</code>:</dt><dd> see

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?

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

I don't understand the advantages of generating html help dynamically, but I have found some clear disadvantages. One is that I can no longer use a bookmark in my browser to access the list of packages and go from there to individual help pages. The other is that, if I try to use ESS instead (using options(help_type="html") in .Rprofile) - it is a mess. ESS splits the emacs frame

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

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

I'm trying to diagnose a bizarre problem in which the help files invoked from R are partially defective. help(), for instance, is missing the Description, Arguments and See Also sections; as are help files for other commands (see below). I've built 2.8.1, 2.10.1 and HEAD with the same results; do I need to set an environment or configuration variable? help

Hello, I am on a laptop with Win7, running R-2.12.1 if I click on Packages/InstallPackages I get : > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.skazkaforyou.com/bin/windows/contrib/2.12 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/2.12 Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies

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

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

I just upgraded from 2.8.1 to 2.10 on Windows Vista. BIG MISTAKE apparently because now when I type: > help(functionname) or ?functionname I get only a small text window giving some very basic info on the topic, e.g.: base-package package:base R Documentation The R Base Package Description: Base R functions Details: This package contains the

Dear All, I need to convert all Rd help pages for my package to HTML format in order to serve these on our web-server. Ideally, I would like to do that as "all docs in single page" and also index page + one html page per Rd file. Looking through documentation the only clues I could find were * R CMD Rdconv --type=html FILE, which does not produce cross-links, does not

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 2:37 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 06/04/2016 4:17 AM, Holger Hoefling wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if there was an equivalent to the pdf-manual for >> R-packages, but rendered as a single html page? I am looking for this as it >> would make reading easier as >> - no restriction to the

Hi all Apologies if this is a trivial question- I have searched the lists and the online help files etc but have not managed to find anything. I recently downloaded the latest version of R, which has the help type set to htmlhelp as default (according to http://127.0.0.1:18380/library/utils/html/help.html) I would very much like to be able to access the help files when I am offline by typing