Dear colleagues, I am trying to get someone to use R on MS Windows with the browser disabled. My question is how does he/she get to use R-help which goes off the browser (and correspondingly complains about the inability to start firefox, etc). In linux, which is what I use, this is not a problem: what needs to be set in Windows to replicate this behavior? Sorry if I am not clear: please feel free to ask me for clarifications. Thanks again for the helpful advice! Best wishes, Ranjan
Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser
5 messages · Ranjan Maitra, Jonathan P Daily, cpoirier +1 more
try:
options(help_type = 'text')
?options
If this works, you can create a site profile (A default is created
automatically in windows, if I remember correctly) where you can set this
to run in each session.
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the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it."
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04/12/2011 01:56 PM
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[R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser
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Dear colleagues,
I am trying to get someone to use R on MS Windows with the browser
disabled. My question is how does he/she get to use R-help which goes
off the browser (and correspondingly complains about the inability to
start firefox, etc). In linux, which is what I use, this is not a
problem: what needs to be set in Windows to replicate this behavior?
Sorry if I am not clear: please feel free to ask me for clarifications.
Thanks again for the helpful advice!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
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1 day later
Hi, Just wanted to mention that this worked perfectly. Many thanks again and best wishes, Ranjan On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:04:14 -0500 Jonathan P Daily <jdaily at usgs.gov> wrote:
try:
options(help_type = 'text')
?options
If this works, you can create a site profile (A default is created
automatically in windows, if I remember correctly) where you can set this
to run in each session.
--------------------------------------
Jonathan P. Daily
Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center
11649 Leetown Road
Kearneysville WV, 25430
(304) 724-4480
"Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,
the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it."
- Jubal Early, Firefly
From:
Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu>
To:
R-help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date:
04/12/2011 01:56 PM
Subject:
[R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser
Sent by:
r-help-bounces at r-project.org
Dear colleagues,
I am trying to get someone to use R on MS Windows with the browser
disabled. My question is how does he/she get to use R-help which goes
off the browser (and correspondingly complains about the inability to
start firefox, etc). In linux, which is what I use, this is not a
problem: what needs to be set in Windows to replicate this behavior?
Sorry if I am not clear: please feel free to ask me for clarifications.
Thanks again for the helpful advice!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
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13 days later
Dear Ranjan, I'm afraid the command "options(help_type = 'text')" will not work if R is closed and opened again as the 'help_type' argument is set to 'html' by default in Windows (same for me). You should better modify the 'C:/Program Files/R/R-X.XX.X/etc/Rprofile.site' file with a text editor, as it is entitled: "Things you might want to change" (and this is the case indeed!) So move the # character in the following section from: # set the default help type # options(help_type="text") options(help_type="html") to: # set the default help type options(help_type="text") # options(help_type="html") and the 'help_type' argument is now definitely set to 'text' in Windows. Hope this helps! Clement -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Using-help-in-Windows-version-of-R-with-disabled-browser-tp3445284p3481275.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 28/04/2011 11:00 AM, cpoirier wrote:
Dear Ranjan, I'm afraid the command "options(help_type = 'text')" will not work if R is closed and opened again as the 'help_type' argument is set to 'html' by default in Windows (same for me).
That's a default, but you can change it when you install R if you don't want to find the file to edit. A re-install that de-selects most of the components won't delete them, so it's a quick way to change the startup defaults. Duncan Murdoch
You should better modify the 'C:/Program Files/R/R-X.XX.X/etc/Rprofile.site' file with a text editor, as it is entitled: "Things you might want to change" (and this is the case indeed!) So move the # character in the following section from: # set the default help type # options(help_type="text") options(help_type="html") to: # set the default help type options(help_type="text") # options(help_type="html") and the 'help_type' argument is now definitely set to 'text' in Windows. Hope this helps! Clement -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Using-help-in-Windows-version-of-R-with-disabled-browser-tp3445284p3481275.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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