[R] open help files in browser

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Mar 30 19:59:30 CEST 2010


On 30/03/2010 1:46 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Is there a way to open help files in the default web browser instead of a new R-window
> when I use the help-functions (like ?, help.search() etc.)?
You don't say what platform you're using.  Generally the way to do this 
is to run options(help_type="html") but that doesn't necessarily work on 
all platforms:  the Mac GUI will intercept the call and do HTML display 
in the internal browser; other platforms may not be able to run the HTML 
server.

Duncan Murdoch



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