Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612191211191.6091@auk.stats>
Date: 2006-12-19T12:15:11Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: configure help
In-Reply-To: <4587CFF8.8070602@wu-wien.ac.at>
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/
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