[R-sig-Debian] separate window for help/newbie

[Katharina Manderscheid]

sorry, i need further assistance:
i thought it would be nice to use Kate as texteditor which opens help.
but if i try
options("pager"="Kate")
and then
options("pager")
i get
$pager
[1] "Kate"
but when i try the help
help(help)
i get
sh: Kate not found
so i suppose (don't laugh, as i said, i'm linux-newbie), i have to put in
something else for kate to open...
thanks,
katharina
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dr. katharina manderscheid

research visitor
centre of mobilities research
department of sociology
bowland north
lancaster university
lancaster la1 4yt
uk


Zitat von Adrian Dusa <dusa.adrian at gmail.com>:

> On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On 13 November 2007 at 19:26, Adrian Dusa wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > | Then I created .Rprofile (in both /usr/lib/R/etc/ and /etc/R/) with
> >
> > ( Redundant, should be the same file by virtue of symbolic links. )
>
> Yes it's true, i just needed to make sure it reads it.
>
>
> > [..]
> >
> > As per   help(Startup)   the site-global file is Rprofile.site, not
> > .Rprofile.
> >
> > Also note how it tells you
> >
> > 	 do not change '$R_HOME/etc/Renviron' itself
> >
> > Renviron is, AFAIK, a reflection of compile-time settings.
> >
> > Things have always worked fine for me with the either the ~/.Rprofile and
> > ~/.Renviron files, or their *.site variants below /etc.
>
> OK, one step forward. So that's the difference between .Rprofile
> and .Rprofile.site
>
> This option can be manually set in R; I have also tried that last times and
> Konqueror still displays the home folder instead of the help file.
>
> With .Rprofile.site in /etc/R/ (and/or .Rprofile in the home folder) the
> result is the same.
>
> The question is how to persuade Konqueror to display the help file. In R:
> > options("pager")
> $pager
> [1] "kfmclient newTab"
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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