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Subject:    Re: [ESS] Is it worthy to switch to HTML help type in R?
From:       Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz () me ! com>
Date:       2010-05-17 14:20:35
Message-ID: 764F9BCD-A6EE-49E0-A8DD-C290451A4C44 () me ! com
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On May 17, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:

> On 05/16/10 08:15 PM, Stanley Chu wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > The default help_type in R under ESS is "text". Thus when I type, e.g. ?lm, the \
> > help page appears in another buffer. I am wondering how to change this default to \
> > "html", so that the result of using ?[function] appears in a browser. I have \
> > tried to include options(help_type = "html") in my Rprofile.site, yet it does not \
> > work. I still have to use help(functionname, help_type = "html") to make it work. \
> >  My thought is the "html" help is more convenient because you can click \
> > hyperlinks in the current help page and "jump" to another function help. I wonder \
> > how is everyone efficiently using the help. 
> > Thanks for sharing the thoughts.
> > Stanley
> 
> I usually do that with a help.start()
> 
> Rodney


If you are using ESS 5.5 (I believe) or greater, you can put the following into your \
~/.emacs file:

  (setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", help_type=\"html\")\n")

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

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