configure help

Hi All,

I ma running R under windows with xemacs and ESS.
The Rprofile.site options, somehow gets overridden by xemacs and my options
in Rprofile.site are not taken into account while they are when I use Rgui.
How can I specify my options if I am using xemacs? and what configuration file
xemacs+ess use for R.
Thanks
AA

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Fridolin Wild <fridolin.wild at wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:15:11 AM
Subject: Re: [R] configure help

Hello,

as I just spent a (too long) while searching
for a way how to persistantly switch back the help display
routines from chm to text, here a small documentation
how to do that with the windows version of R.

The windows installer asks which help type
you want to use, I wanted to test the chm
version -- which I didn't like.

If you after installation want to switch back,
you have to edit

   << myRdirectory\etc\Rprofile.site >>

and change the line

   options(chmhelp=TRUE)

back to

   options(chmhelp=FALSE)

It would be nice if -- in a future release -- this
also could be changed in the GUI settings.

But it has nothing to do with the GUI preferences: it applies to the 
command-line version of R as well.

What about ?help did you not understand? It says

           chmhelp = getOption("chmhelp"),
           ...
  chmhelp: logical (or 'NULL'). Only relevant under Windows. If 'TRUE'
           the Compiled HTML version of the help on the topic will be
           shown in a help viewer.

so you need to set options(chmhelp=FALSE): it is up to you where you set 
it.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

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