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starting html help for a package?

4 messages · Liviu Andronic, Duncan Murdoch

Liviu Andronic
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Dear all
Shouldn't this start the html help for the chosen package?
Instead, the text version is displayed in less (I believe). However, I
have no issues to start the html help with the following.
starting httpd help server ... done
If 'xdg-open' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must
    switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...

The help page states:
"If for some reason HTML help is unavailable (see
?startDynamicHelp?), plain text help will be used instead."

However,
No documentation for 'startDynamicHelp' in specified packages and libraries:
you could try '??startDynamicHelp'

Am I doing anything wrong? Thank you
Liviu
Duncan Murdoch
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Liviu Andronic wrote:
The page displayed there was never an HTML page.  In the future it 
probably should be, but it hasn't been implemented yet.
It's in the tools package, which you probably hadn't attached.  If you 
followed the advice and used ??, you would have got it.

Duncan Murdoch
Liviu Andronic
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On 11/12/09, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
At the moment is there a way to call the html help for a package, that
is starting in a browser the text displayed by help(package="boot")?
Indeed. I assumed that with 2.10 this was deprecated, but I was wrong.
Liviu
Duncan Murdoch
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Liviu Andronic wrote:
If you look at the index page, and if the package author created a 
package man page, you'll find it.  That would give you the same thing as 
package?foo, not the same thing you asked for, which always generates 
package info, never looks it up.

At some point in the future the package?info page will be able to be 
generated automatically, and I imagine it will end up containing the 
package info you saw.   It would make sense for

help(package="boot", help_type = "html")

to give the same result.

Duncan Murdoch