[R] Cannot Launch R Help Files under Window 8.1

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Jack H. Pincus
<jack.pincus at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestions.  I did some further digging and found the problem was more subtle. I use Dashlane, a password management program, which requires IE to run in protected mode under Win 8. Disabling protected mode solved the problem with R help.
>
> Jack
>

If you don't want to disable IE protected mode you could install
firefox, say, without making it the default browser and then set the
browser option in R like this:

    options(browser = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe")