[ESS] ESS 5.5 released

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 7 October 2009 at 12:45, Stephen Eglen wrote:
| Dear all,
| 
| > It does not contain new features, but fixes some buglets,
| > including the recent issue
| > that enabling (non-emacs) HTML help for R
| > now does work by customizing the 
| > inferior-ess-help-command variable to
| >     "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n"
| > 
| > either by explicitly ("old-fashioned") adding
| >     (setq inferior-ess-help-command   "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")
| > to your ~/.emacs
| > or by going through emacs menus
| >     Options -> Customize -> "Specific Option.."
| 
| Small correction, I think you need to add the following to .emacs (note
| different variable name):
| 
| (setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")
| 
| Customize should work too.

Can I use this new feature to close the open bug report we had for now 3+
years in Debian 

	http://bugs.debian.org/371058

where someone desired to get help via

        help(foo, package=bar)

from within ESS?

Dirk

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