[R-SIG-Mac] feature request: paste and match style / open help files in external browser (R.app)

[Simon Urbanek]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 11:17 , Martin Batholdy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I really like the R application for mac OS X but there are two  
> issues which often get in my way working with R:
>
>
> the first;
> When I copy code from for example a website or R help-file and want  
> to paste it in my R-script the text gets pasted as rich text
> which leads in most cases to different text size, font-family etc.
>
> That is really annoying and currently I copy text first to an editor  
> like TextMate and then into my R-script which is not really  
> comfortable.
> So a "copy and match style"-option or a default matching of pasted  
> text to the documents defaults (like in TextMate) would be great.
>

Fair enough - I'll look into that.


> the second;
> I use the help-functions a lot to look up all the different  
> arguments of a function.
> What I would love is if it would be possible to open help-files in a  
> different program (like Safari).

It is - see NEWS and also
http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg04700.html

Cheers,
Simon


> So that when I type ?par (or help("par")) my default web browser  
> pops up and shows me the help-file.
> That would give me the opportunity to easily search the help-file  
> via CMD+F and to quickly switch between a help-file and a script.
>



>
> hope that these features will be implemented some day.
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