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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>>>>>     on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:34:19 -0500 writes:

    Duncan> 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.

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

maybe not yet, but accumlated over (future) time ?

I presume it does not only affect ESS users but also
those of other (non-standard) [G]UIs.

OTOH, maybe, it *is* something the GUI authors should take care,
i.e., we should consider for the next version of ESS,
to issue 
	    options(chmhelp=FALSE)
automatically by default when we see to be on Windows.

Martin Maechler

    Duncan> Duncan Murdoch