configure help
Thanks Prof. Ripley Your point about the ESS list is well taken. I did read the "initialization at the start of an R session" but could not figure out why some of the options are ignored in the Rprofile.site. But I found out that theses options are re-defined in init.el file in .xemacs directory which seems obvious now to me. Thanks again for your help. AA. ----- Original Message ---- From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> To: ahmad ajakh <aajakh at yahoo.com> Cc: Fridolin Wild <fridolin.wild at wu-wien.ac.at>; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:38:18 PM Subject: Re: [R] configure help This is the wrong list for ESS questions, as both the FAQ and rw-FAQ point out. However, if you read ?Startup you will see that Rprofile.site is not necessarily read on startup (and this is why I gave a more careful answer to Fridolin, for his instructions are not generic).
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, ahmad ajakh wrote:
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 On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Fridolin Wild wrote:
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) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595