Prof Brian Ripley writes:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr wrote:
> > > The function help.start() assume that the brower is netscape > > which is no longer the dominant brower in used. I am using now opera > > On what operating system is this? On Unix/Linux you should be using > options(browser="opera"). On Windows/Mac you can't set the browser > anyway. on Linux, actually > > help.start(browser="opera"), but it is not convenience: I would like > > to be able to set the default brwsernone for all. But the real bug is > > that even after launching help.start(browser="opera"), other help > > commands, help(help), say, still send the "help page" to netscape. Here > > is what I get > > > > > help.start(browser="opera") > > If opera is already running, it is *not* restarted, > > and you must switch to its window. > > Otherwise, be patient.. > > > help(help) > > help() for help is shown in browser netscape ... > > Use help( help , htmlhelp=FALSE) > > or options(htmlhelp = FALSE) > > to revert. > > > sh: netscape: command not found > > > > Please correct this bug. > > I don't think it is a bug in R but I have expanded the documentation. > > Please do use the bug.report() function, as critical information is > missing from this report. I am sorry not having looked carefully on the documentation. But the first thing I do is to launch help.start() and be stuck with an inexistent browser. I have imagined that help.start(browser="opera") would set the browser to opera, but I am wrong and the browser must be set by options(browser="opera"), a feature which I am not aware of. Nevertheless, I find this rather confusing for a new user: if options(browser="opera") should always be used to set the browser, then the argument browser="opera" in help.start would never be needed.
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