[ESS] help in R 2.10 Windows

[Ross Boylan]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 23:12 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 19:20, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 09:54 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>     RossB> ESS's opening message and ess-version variable both
> >>     RossB> say 5.5.
> >>
> >> not good.
> > I think I've fixed that; ess-version and the startup message both say
> > 5.6.
> >
> > inferior-ess-help-command is a variable defined in `ess-cust.el'.
> > Its value is
> > ".help.ESS(\"%s\", help_type=\"text\")\n"
> >
> > However, ?nlm gets
> > Error: could not find function ".help.ESS"
> > in the nlm help buffer.
> 
> Hmm, .help.ESS  should be defined via R-code that is sent from ESS,
> (and depends on the R version in use).
> For R >= 2.10.0,   a line
>  .help.ESS <- help
> >
Could the fact that ESS gets a timeout waiting for the R process to
start be relevant?
Ross