[R-SIG-Mac] open help in browser

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 3, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Keren DONG wrote:

> Thanks!
> 
> I just tried but got an issue, whenever I invoked help, a blank R help window will always jump first, after that the browser shows. Is there any way to avoid this behavior?
> 

Thanks, good point. This should be fixed in r5682 - so please check tonight's GUI build tomorrow.

Thanks,
Simon



> On 3 February 2011 21:08, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:31 PM, DONG Keren wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to open help files in the default web browser instead of a
> > new R-window
> > when I use the help-functions (like ?, help.search() etc.)?
> >
> 
> Yes, from the NEWS for R 2.10.1:
> 
> *       Added "use.external.help" preference entry. If set to
>        YES then the configured R browser is used to display
>        help pages instead of the internal one.
> 
> Also it was discussed here before:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-mac@r-project.org/msg00017.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> > I have tried options(htmlhelp=TRUE) and options(help_type = "html"), both
> > does not work.
> >
> > I am using R 2.12.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.6.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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