Hi, I' using Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 and on both of the systems help doesn't work unless I set options(help_type="html"). I hate to change context and help_type='html' distracts me. I want text based help inside console. Where should I look to fix this problem? -- Amol
hetlp_type text doen't work on Ubuntu
4 messages · Amol Jadhav, Uwe Ligges, Ben Bolker
Don't know the internals behind, but when I did this:
help.search('qplot', rebuild=T)
the text help started working. It would be interesting to know why it worked that way. Also if it is happens always, it should have been documented somewhere -- so that new users (who needs help) will not get disappointed [I was using R without help until i found about option(help_type='html')]. Anyway, i'm glad that it started working. -- Amol
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Amol Jadhav <amolj.1306 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I' using Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 and on both of the systems help doesn't work unless I set options(help_type="html"). I hate to change context and help_type='html' distracts me. I want text based help inside console. Where should I look to fix this problem? -- Amol
On 20.08.2011 08:25, Amol Jadhav wrote:
Hi, I' using Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 and on both of the systems help doesn't work unless I set options(help_type="html"). I hate to change context and help_type='html' distracts me. I want text based help inside console. Where should I look to fix this problem?
What's wrong with the text help? What does "doesn't work" mean? What is the output? Error message? R version? ..... PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html Uwe Ligges
-- Amol
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Amol Jadhav <amolj.1306 <at> gmail.com> writes:
Don't know the internals behind, but when I did this:
help.search('qplot', rebuild=T)
the text help started working. It would be interesting to know why it worked that way. Also if it is happens always, it should have been documented somewhere -- so that new users (who needs help) will not get disappointed [I was using R without help until i found about option(help_type='html')]. Anyway, i'm glad that it started working.
I'm glad it started working too, but it seems extremely likely that your problem was specific to your system. R's help system does normally work fine "out of the box" -- there are thousands of Ubuntu users, and none that I'm aware of has ever reported this particular problem before. Ben Bolker