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

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Robert,

Over here, if I issue help.start() and I have a running konqueror on the
current virtual desktop, then the R intro page is shown in a new tab on that
window, and subsequent help calls open tabs in that window. So I usually
don't have the situation that R would have to choose to which konqueror
window to send the help pages.

However, if I deliberately start a new konqueror window, this new one is
being used by kfmclient newTab. If you have three konqueror windows on
your virtual desktop, things get complicated :) My suggestion would be
to stick to one konqueror window per virtual desktop.

Johannes

* Robert King <Robert.King at newcastle.edu.au> [071116 00:20]:
> 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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