[R] open help files in browser

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/03/2010 2:19 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on Mac OS X 10.6.
> R-version: 2.9.0.
>
> > the Mac GUI will intercept the call and do HTML display in the internal browser
>
>
> With internal browser you mean a built-in browser of R?
> Is there also a way to invoke Safari to display the help-file (with the common help-functions)?
>   

I don't think so, but you might get a more authoritative answer on the 
R-sig-mac mailing list.

Duncan Murdoch
>
>
> With internal you mean
>
> On 30.03.2010, at 19:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> > 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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