Xemacs does not want to execute help.start() with R1.9.1

[ottorino-luca.pantani at unifi.it]

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From: 8rino-Luca Pantani <ottorino-luca.pantani at unifi.it>
To: ERRE <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: [R] Xemacs do not want to execute help.start() with R1.9.1
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:00:33 +0200

Hi all,
I 've just reinstalled from the scratch my Windows 2000 (Italian version)
on a formatted HD, because I like to clean
the environment from time to time (say once a year).

I'm currently using XEmacs-21.4.13 and R (rw1091)
and Xemacs is configured as described in
http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/ess-xemacs.pdf

The problem is that the command
help.start()
added in the  c\Program Files\R\rw1091\etc\Rprofile
do not work and I receive from Xemacs at the startup the following two
lines:
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
Error: couldn't find function "help.start"
> options(STERM='iESS', editor='winclient.exe'> >
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
If I type
help.start()
in the upper as well as in the lower window,
the HTML help start in a new window.

This happened also before the reinstallation of the whole OS,
but it did not happened when I was running a previous R version (1.7.??)

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time.

Ottorino
Univ Of Florence

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