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