R-beta: modified "help.start()"

[Albrecht Gebhardt]

Hi,

this modified version of help.start() makes it possible to store R Documentation
on your (intranet) webserver.

This could be necessary if you run netscape and R from different systems on one
X11 display (if there is no $RHOME directory on the host running netscape). 

help.start() <-
function (gui = "irrelevant", browser = "netscape", remote = NULL)
{
  if (is.null(remote)) {
     url <- "$RHOME/html/index.html"
  }
  else {
     url <- paste(remote, "/html/index.html", sep = "")
  }
  cat("If", browser, " is already running,\tit is *not* restarted,\n",
      "and you must switch to its window.\nOtherwise, be patient..\n")
  system(paste(browser, " -remote \"openURL(", url, ")\" 2>/dev/null || ",
               browser, " ", url, " &", sep = ""))
}


Then make an appropriate link from $RHOME into your web servers /htdocs tree and
type

help.start(remote='http://your.www.server/R')



A.Gebhardt 

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