SOLVED: Re: [R] help output paged in separate window

[Greg Louis]

On 20030527 (Tue) at 1123:52 +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 27-May-03 Ted Harding wrote:
> > 1. Create a file in your $PATH with name "pgr" containg the lines
> >   #! /bin/bash
> >   export HLPFIL=`mktemp R_hlp.tmp.XXXXXX`
> >   cat > $HLPFIL
> >   xterm -e less $HLPFIL &
> > 
> > 2. Give R the command  options(page="pgr") where "pgr" can be replaced
> >    by a full pathname if required.
> > [...]
> > If you use this a lot, you will find it handy to have a method of
> > automatically deleting all the "R_hlp.tmp.XXXXXX" files you've created
> > in a session.
> 
> For anyone who wants details of how to set all this up automatically, try
> the following:
> 
> Edit your ~/.Rprofile to include (as well as anything else that's there):
> 
>   options(pager="~/pgr")
>   .Last <- function() {
>     system("rm R_hlp.tmp.*")
>   }
> 
This also works on Linux, except it removes the temporary file when the
pager exits:
#! /bin/bash
export HLPFIL=`mktemp R_hlp.tmp.XXXXXX`
cat > $HLPFIL
xterm -e less $HLPFIL & lpid=$!
wait $lpid
/bin/rm $HLPFIL

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