I tested Opera 5.0 under Linux (www.opera.com). It worked with -remote correctly. What I did not get to work was the search engine, but I saw no sign of Java support for Opera under Linux. (For Windows it is a separate add-on.) I've amended the documentation, but I do wonder if help.start(browser="foo") should set options(browser="foo"). B
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Kurt Hornik wrote:
Dinh-Tuan Pham writes:
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.
The documentation issue may be unfortunate, but there is really no point unless we find browsers other than Netscape which can be controlled remotely. I have been raising this issue a couple of times, last time about three months ago or so. Mozilla then claimed to support -remote as Netscape does but really did not. Konqueror does not allow being sent URLs remotely, and neither does gnome-help-browser. Not sure about Opera ... do you have more info? -k -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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