[R-SIG-Mac] help(foo, help_type = "text")

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 14, 2013, at 2:58 PM, ian m s white wrote:

> When I use the R.app GUI, underlined text produced by help(…, help_type = "text") appears as
> 
> _^Ht_^He_^Hx_^Ht
> 
> (for example). Any cure for this?

If you choose an external editor (in the Editor Preferences panel), you get whatever display style that editor executes for highlighted/underlined text. Textwrangler.app will display it with interspersed underline characters.

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David.

> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01)
> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.15.3
>> 
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David Winsemius
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