Sent: April-16-15 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Need online version of R help pages
I was able to get the help info for many of the commands from the
link for "The R Reference Index" at
http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html.
However, I found that I could also get help from the R prompt via
help(myHelpTopic,help_type="html")
To make that work, I needed options(browser="cygstart") in
~/.Rprofile.
Very puzzling to a non-web-developer like myself: The URL for the
help content is (for example)
http://127.0.0.1:16086/library/stats/html/reshape.html. This is a
loop-back address. I did *not* see any file named reshape.html in
subdirectory library/stats/html/reshape.html when I went to
R.home().
I thought that perhaps the file was being composed on the fly.
However, I was under the distinct impression that my account did not
have the ability to set up servers (and I assume that the page that
is composed on the fly must be served out by a server).