I'm working on a modified version of John Fox' Rcmdr package to use in a course I will begin teaching in February. In preparation for this, I'm making sure that the package is truly platform independent. On the OS X side I have run into a minor issue involving how help files get displayed. Specifically, help files that are triggered withing Rcmdr get handled as plain text (which Rcmdr provides an X11 tk text window to display), and not through the Aqua help browser. I'm wondering if there is a way to have the html help files of Rcmdr displayed in the Aqua help browser. What may or may not be obvious from the above description is that the Rcmdr package is written using the tcltk package, and I'm using the standard CRAN version of R 2.0.1 on Panther, so tcltk widgets are handled in X11. Dan Putler
X11-tcltk packages and the Aqua help browser
2 messages · Dan Putler, stefano iacus
Try setting htmlhelp = TRUE in the options, this should allow Rcmdr to call the default html browser. This problem with help will be fixed in r-devel as we are going to redefine the print methods for help. stefano
On Dec 14, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Dan Putler wrote:
I'm working on a modified version of John Fox' Rcmdr package to use in a course I will begin teaching in February. In preparation for this, I'm making sure that the package is truly platform independent. On the OS X side I have run into a minor issue involving how help files get displayed. Specifically, help files that are triggered withing Rcmdr get handled as plain text (which Rcmdr provides an X11 tk text window to display), and not through the Aqua help browser. I'm wondering if there is a way to have the html help files of Rcmdr displayed in the Aqua help browser. What may or may not be obvious from the above description is that the Rcmdr package is written using the tcltk package, and I'm using the standard CRAN version of R 2.0.1 on Panther, so tcltk widgets are handled in X11. Dan Putler
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