[R] help manual on R on ESS

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

This is an ESS question, not an R one.

The problem is that the argument names to the function help() have changed in recent releases of R, and "htmlhelp" is no longer an accepted argument.  The replacement argumennt is now help_type (with default value getOption("help_type")).

This may have been fixed in the latest version of ESS but you will have to check that.

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Liu
Sent: Saturday, 18 September 2010 3:08 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] help manual on R on ESS

Hi folks,

R on ESS

Why it is unable to pop up help manual on "R on ESS"?

?layout
Error in help("layout", htmlhelp = FALSE) : 
  unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALS

?plot
Error in help("plot", htmlhelp = FALSE) : 
  unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALSE)

etc.


But they work on R console and popup the manual without problem.  TIA


B.R.
Stephen L



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