[ESS] help("foo") opens web browser but ?foo doesn't

[Marc Schwartz]

On Mar 13, 2013, at 6:49 AM, Henrik Singmann <henrik.singmann at psychologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I know that similar questions have come up from time to time, but the solutions didn't fit my problem.
> 
> I want ESS to display help pages always in the web browser and managed to do so partly thanks to SO (http://stackoverflow.com/q/2413163/289572) via
> '(inferior-ess-r-help-command ".help.ESS(\"%s\", help_type=\"html\")")
> in my custom variables in my .emacs
> 
> However, the browser only opens for help("foo") but not ?foo.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to open help in browser also for ?foo (or better always)?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Henrik


Different incantation in .emacs:

(setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", help_type=\"html\")\n")

which works in both cases.

This is on OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion), ESS 12.09-2, R 2.15.3 and Emacs 24.3. Albeit, I have had the same entry in .emacs for some years over numerous versions of R, Emacs, ESS and even OS's (Fedora Linux and OSX).

Regards,

Marc Schwartz