[R] help went away from top emacs window :-(

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu Nov 2 12:34:19 CET 2006


On 11/1/2006 11:59 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> This is a change in the default in the Windows version of R in 2.4.0.
> It is not an ESS issue.  To change it back, type
> 
>     options(chmhelp=FALSE)
> 
> 
> Duncan, I think this change in Help default should be added to the Windows FAQ.

It's an install option.  The fact that it is now user-settable is 
mentioned in the CHANGES file.  I guess the change to the default should 
also have been mentioned there (I'll add it), but I wouldn't call this 
question "frequent".

Duncan Murdoch



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