[R] no html help upon upgrading to 2.10

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/12/2009 3:46 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
> ?help   (see argument help_type)
> ?options 
> 
> This has been asked before. My understanding is that there was a licensing
> issue with Microsoft's compiled html help; so what you need to do is specify

There was nothing new there:  CHM is discouraged (or at least not 
encouraged) by Microsoft, but they haven't changed licensing.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 
> options(help_type = "html")
> 
> in your startup process. There are a variety of ways to do so, explained in
> ?Startup .
> 
> Bert Gunter
> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Jim Bouldin
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:44 AM
> To: R help
> Subject: [R] no html help upon upgrading to 2.10
> 
> 
> I just upgraded from 2.8.1 to 2.10 on Windows Vista.  BIG MISTAKE
> apparently because now when I type:
> 
>> help(functionname)
> 
> or
> ?functionname
> 
> I get only a small text window giving some very basic info on the topic,
> e.g.:
> 
> base-package               package:base                R Documentation
> 
> The R Base Package
> 
> Description:
> 
>      Base R functions
> 
> Details:
> 
>      This package contains the basic functions which let R function as
>      a language: arithmetic, input/output, basic programming support,
>      etc.  Its contents are available through inheritance from any
>      environment.
> 
>      For a complete list of functions, use 'library(help="base")'.
> 
> 
> and not the html help screen with full package or function description like
> I used to.  Exceedingly problematic, and I can find nothing either in the
> FAQs or the R search sites on what to do.   Solutions much appreciated,
> thanks.
> 
> 
> Jim Bouldin, PhD
> Research Ecologist
> Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
> Davis CA, 95616
> 530-554-1740
> 
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