Message-ID: <4AFC98AA.6060304@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2009-11-12T23:22:18Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: starting html help for a package?
In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610911121422n1fa40a0dp2c76a52018952fe7@mail.gmail.com>
Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all
> Shouldn't this start the html help for the chosen package?
>
>> help(package="boot", help_type = "html")
>>
The page displayed there was never an HTML page. In the future it
probably should be, but it hasn't been implemented yet.
>
> Instead, the text version is displayed in less (I believe). However, I
> have no issues to start the html help with the following.
>
>> help.start()
>>
> starting httpd help server ... done
> If 'xdg-open' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must
> switch to its window.
> Otherwise, be patient ...
>
> The help page states:
> "If for some reason HTML help is unavailable (see
> ?startDynamicHelp?), plain text help will be used instead."
>
> However,
>
>> ?startDynamicHelp
>>
> No documentation for 'startDynamicHelp' in specified packages and libraries:
> you could try '??startDynamicHelp'
>
It's in the tools package, which you probably hadn't attached. If you
followed the advice and used ??, you would have got it.
Duncan Murdoch
> Am I doing anything wrong? Thank you
> Liviu
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