[R] help with help()

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi,

Is it possible to upgrade your version of Emacs and ESS (ESS is up to 5.11)?

The official website for ESS is:
http://ess.r-project.org/

Vincent Goulet also maintains a nice distribution of the latest Emacs
bundled with AUCTeX and ESS for Mac at:
http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/mac

It is very easy to install :)

I am not sure that there is an htmlhelp argument anymore.

Cheers,

Josh


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM, claudia tebaldi
<claudia.tebaldi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just this morning I upgraded to R 2.12.0  (for Mac OS X 10.6.4).
> All went well until I needed to run a help() or help.search() in my session,
> which I'm running within Emacs (ESS 5.3.7).
> Say I need help with the command 'density'. When I type
>
> help(density)
> or
> ?density
>
> the ESS help buffer opens, it is titled *help[R](density)* but it contains
> only a couple of lines saying, e.g.,
>
> Error in help("density", htmlhelp = FALSE) :
>  unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALSE)
>
> This is a problem only running R within emacs. The command help() works fine
> if I run R at the command line in  a terminal window or if I use the
> stand-alone R application.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Claudia
>
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> Claudia Tebaldi
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Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
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