[R-gui] ghelp in gWidgets
jverzani
jverzani at gmail.com
Tue May 27 04:23:59 CEST 2008
NOEL Yvonnick <yvonnick.noel <at> free.fr> writes:
Dear Noel,
>
> Hello,
>
> I note that the following gWidgets code that works under Linux fails
> under Windows with R-2.7.0 (gWidgets-0.0.27, gWidgetsRGTk2-0.0.33,
> RGtk2-2.12.5-3):
>
> ghelp("anorexia",package="MASS",cont=TRUE)
>
> The help file is apparently looked for in a /library/car/chm folder
> which does not exist.
>
The ghelp widget under windows is a bit broken, as it expects the help files to
be in a format that isn't typically installed under windows. I need to add in
some windows-specific code to handle cfm(?) filea. Currently the basic code is:
helpFile = help(topic, package=force(pkg), verbose=TRUE)[1]
text = readLines(helpFile)
where pkg and topic are passed in and "text" gets processed then displayed. I
think I can easily crib the windows code from some source, so I'll see what I
can do about adding this feature with the next release. --John
> Thank you.
>
> Yvonnick Noel, PhD.
> University of Brittany
> France
>
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