[R] text rather than html help in Windows

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Jan 2 14:23:34 CET 2009


On 02/01/2009 8:11 AM, Tom La Bone wrote:
> I would like to use Rterm in Windows XP and have the help files appear in
> text format in the terminal rather than in the html popup window. For
> example, I would like to enter help(lm) and get the text to appear in the
> terminal window. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Thanks and Happy Hew
> Year.

Whoops, sorry, Uwe's advice is right.  Text help is only the default 
when run outside a console; I use Cygwin, which doesn't look like a 
console to R.

Duncan Murdoch




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