[Rd] problem with help.start() in R (PR#1156)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley writes:
>  > I tested Opera 5.0 under Linux (www.opera.com). It worked with -remote
>  > correctly. What I did not get to work was the search engine, but I saw
>  > no sign of Java support for Opera under Linux. (For Windows it is a
>  > separate add-on.)
>
> I rarely used R with remote display, so it is not a concern for me.

That's not what -remote is used for.  It allows you to open a file in an
already-running version of the browser.

> But indeed, there is no support for Java in Opera under Linux. I am not
> aware that the search engine (in R ?) need Java support. Hopefully
> this support will be added in later version of Opera.
>
>  > I've amended the documentation, but I do wonder if
>  > help.start(browser="foo") should set options(browser="foo").
>
> My point is that if one launches help.start(browser="foo"), it means
> that one would like to use foo as browser, so default browser should
> be set to foo.
>
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