[R-SIG-Mac] bypassing the R.app help browser?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Aug 12, 2014, at 2:33 PM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> Dear list members,
> 
> Is there a way to bypass the R.app help browser, and to use instead an alternative browser, such as the one pointed to by getOption("browser")? 
> 
> I've tried a number of strategies, including setting .Platform$GUI <- "unknown". The only approach I tried that works is to mask the help() function with a modified version, but this produces other problems, such as referencing unexported objects from utils and tools.
> 
> It would be nice if the help() function had a browser argument, similar to that in browseURL(), and defaulting to the current behaviour.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> John


John,

I found this post from Simon that seems to work:

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-December/006908.html

I tried it on my Mac in the latest version of R.app, which I normally do not use and the help system does now popup a browser.


Regards,

Marc Schwartz