starting html help for a package?

Dear all
Shouldn't this start the html help for the chosen package?

help(package="boot", help_type = "html")

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'

Am I doing anything wrong? Thank you
Liviu

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