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List:       r-sig-mac
Subject:    [R-SIG-Mac] external help browser [Was: R.app feature request]
From:       Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek () r-project ! org>
Date:       2009-12-13 0:36:00
Message-ID: 8999367E-9EDE-4C79-A4ED-A11A4554BA2C () r-project ! org
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In the latest GUI (1.31-rc) you can enable external browser for the help pages by \
setting the use.external.help preference to YES. It's not recommended (since it sort \
of disables the help system), but for those that requested it it's now possible.

Cheers,
Simon


to enable (in Terminal):
defaults write org.R-project.R use.external.help YES

to revert to default:
defaults delete org.R-project.R use.external.help 

On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> 
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vogel@eawag.ch wrote:
> 
> > Dear R.app developers
> > 
> > Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an \
> > external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox. 
> 
> Good point. We're intentionally overriding the "browser" option in the R.app GUI \
> because help pages are treated differently from other "regular" browseURL calls. \
> However, it may make sense to allow a user override. I'll look into this. You will, \
> however, lose the built-in help feature so I would not recommend it as the default. \
>  Thanks,
> Simon
> 
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