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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

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 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

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?

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

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'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

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 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

On 21/03/2023 9:58 a.m., PIKAL Petr wrote: > Hallo Duncan > > Tested but does not work so something other must be wrong. > > R version 4.2.2. >> installed.packages()[,"Package"] > base boot class cluster codetools compiler datasets foreign graphics grDevices grid KernSmooth

I know this is a double post, but the subject line was really misleading. Sorry again. 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

After reading the news about the release of R 2.10 I expected that typing for example ?cut would automatically open a web browser. But I don't see any difference in how help is displayed under Ubuntu Linux (karmic). How does one activate the new dynamic html help? Thanks Frank platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu arch x86_64 os linux-gnu system x86_64,

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

Dear ALL, I am trying to run Tinn R for the first time with R. I have already selected the SDI option. When ever I run the code I get the following error: > source(.trPaths[4]) Error in source(.trPaths[4]) : object '.trPaths' not found Can any one help? Raphael