Message-ID: <B2EFE211-AFC1-4B40-BAD2-B8B9C2CF4B1A@me.com>
Date: 2009-11-04T22:51:36Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: Activating html help in R 2.10
In-Reply-To: <4AF20286.8070800@vanderbilt.edu>
On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> After reading the news about the release of R 2.10 I expected that
> typing for example ?cut would automatically open a web browser. But
> I don't see any difference in how help is displayed under Ubuntu
> Linux (karmic). How does one activate the new dynamic html help?
>
> Thanks
> Frank
Frank,
Set:
options(help_type="html")
in your .Rprofile file.
See ?options and ?help for more info.
Regards,
Marc