help output paged in separate window

Peter Dalgaard · 2003-05-25T15:29:07Z

Duncan Murdoch writes: > On Sun, 25 May 2003 10:42:27 +0100 (BST), Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk > wrote in r-help: > > >Thanks to Jonathan Baron and Peter Dalgaard for private comments and help > >on this question. Peter in particular pointed out that > > library(tcltk); options(pager=tkpager) > > I notice a bug in the behaviour when used with help(). In Windows > (and elsewhere?) the pager gets called through file.show, with the > help topic given as the "header", rathe

Peter Dalgaard

Sun, May 25, 2003 8:29 AM

Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch@pair.com> writes:

A bit of both, I think. The Unix version of help() has

                  file.show(zfile, title = paste("R Help on `",
                    topic, "'", sep = ""), delete.file = (zfile !=
                    file), pager = pager)

so everything is in the title. We could still paste the title and the
header arguments rather than put the header in the displayed text, of
course. 

I don't read the docs as "overall title common to all displayed files"
though, just as common to the set of files displayed by file.show. Or
was that what you meant too?

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