[R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Wed Sep 20 18:15:25 CEST 2006


Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> SNIP
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>> After R starts you can manage help files nicely using help.start() to 
>> use a browser.  I often use dillo, the world's fastest graphical 
>> browser, by specifying options(browser='dillo') before help.start().
> 
> WOW - dillo is BRILLIANT for this purpose.
> Thanks for the tip!
> Do you have any idea on how to convince dillo to reuse the same browser 
> window again instead of using a new one when using ? ?

Good question.  No, don't know.  Hope someone can figure it out.

By the way a handy use of kate is kate -u from the command line to open 
a file into an existing kate session, or start a session if needed.

Frank

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>> Frank
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>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Brian



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