[R-sig-Fedora] Scrolling in Help System Doesn't Work

[Tom Callaway]

On 08/05/2011 10:40 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> UsRs,
>
> When accessing help by typing, for example,
>> ?read.table
> the up and down keys do no longer scroll the help page. The page-up and
> page-down keys also do not work any longer. I can scroll down by
> pressing the d key, but I cannot scroll up by pressing the b key
> (although it should work according to the text displayed when you press
> the h key).
>
> I'm not sure whether this question is Fedora-specific, but since this
> list is most close to my configuration I first would like to know if
> this can be replicated (or maybe I'm missing something obvious).

By default, R uses "more" as a pager. You can see this by looking at 
/usr/lib[64]/R/etc/Renviron, specifically, the "PAGER" variable. If you 
wanted to switch to a pager that supports up-down scrolling, switch it 
to /usr/bin/less.

~tom

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