-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:34 AM
To: baron at cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; stuart.leask at nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [R] help in a separate window under linux
baron at cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Jonathan Baron) writes:
From owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Tue Sep 18 07:23:04 2001
Is there a simple way of configuring R under linux to put
into a separate, new console?
1. help.start() puts them in a browser.
2. You can make a bookmark or button on your browser for the R
documents in html on your disk, usually in /usr/lib/R/doc/html.
3. You can have R itself running twice in different windows, once
just for help. This is probably the most straightforward answer.
(In Gnome, you can put it in a different virtual desktop, and
switch back and forth with alt-shift-arrow - which is exceedingly
easy on a Kinesis keyboard. I do this because my monitor is only
17 inches, which is about right for one window.)
4. You can use ESS, which uses the bottom half of the screen for
help. I usually find that I want the whole screen, though, so I
end up closing the help window.
Perhaps there are other answers. Jon Baron
5. library(tcltk); options(pager=tkpager)
6. options(pager="./mypager") with mypager
#!/bin/sh
cat > /tmp/foo
xterm -e less /tmp/foo &
(getting a unique tempfile name and removing it when you're through
reading is - um - an exercise for the reader)
7. options(pager=function(file, header, title, delete.file)
system(paste("xterm", "-e less", file, "&")))
(getting the title right is going to be tricky: it is generally
something like "R Help on `ls'" and the quotes will confuse
the shell)
The latter two obviously only work when less is installed...
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