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

[Robert King]

While we're on the KDE magic, how can I get help.start() to open a new 
konqueror window, then have following help calls open new tabs in *that* 
window.  I tried

> help.start()
Making links in per-session dir ...
If 'sensible-browser' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and
    you must switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...
> options(browser="kfmclient newTab")
> ?help.start

but this opened a new tab for the help.start help in another konqueror window 
on the current desktop, rather than the one that just opened.  (the same 
happened with

> help.start(browser="kfmclient")
Changing the default browser (as specified by the 'browser' option) to
    the given browser so that it gets used for all future help
    requests.
Making links in per-session dir ...
If 'kfmclient' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must
    switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...
> options(browser="kfmclient newTab")
> ?help.start

Thanks,
Robert.

On Thursday 15 November 2007 0:11, Adrian Dusa wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I just tried to use konqueror as a pager as well - it just opens showing
> > my home folder, as Adrian described. It might be because the help
> > contents are piped into the pager. Konqueror (and its alias kfmclient)
> > is not a pager, althought it is a lot of other things.
> >
> > I suggest to use HTML help, at least if you happen to use KDE as a
> > desktop environment. Either you just issue the command help.start() from
> > within your R session, or you can make HTML help the default. I just
> > recalled that there is this R option, and I now have following lines in
> > my .Rprofile:
> >
> > 	options(htmlhelp=TRUE)
> > 	options(browser="kfmclient newTab")
>
> Brilliant, thanks very much Johannes that solves it.
> All the best,
> Adrian

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