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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