[R-SIG-Mac] external help browser [Was: R.app feature request]

[Simon Urbanek]

In the latest GUI (1.31-rc) you can enable external browser for the help pages by setting the use.external.help preference to YES. It's not recommended (since it sort of disables the help system), but for those that requested it it's now possible.

Cheers,
Simon


to enable (in Terminal):
defaults write org.R-project.R use.external.help YES

to revert to default:
defaults delete org.R-project.R use.external.help 

On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> 
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vogel at eawag.ch wrote:
> 
>> Dear R.app developers
>> 
>> Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox.
>> 
> 
> Good point. We're intentionally overriding the "browser" option in the R.app GUI because help pages are treated differently from other "regular" browseURL calls. However, it may make sense to allow a user override. I'll look into this. You will, however, lose the built-in help feature so I would not recommend it as the default.
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 
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