[R-SIG-Mac] Permanently fix R to open Help page in html

Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christofer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 05:33:27 CEST 2017


Performed steps according to Marc's suggestions :

But not help page is not openning in Browser.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 10, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/07/2017 5:02 PM, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted R to open any Help page in html permanently.
>>>
>>> So 1st I created .Rprofile file with below code in terminal:
>>>
>>> touch ~/.Rprofile
>>>
>>> open -a Textedit ~/.Rprofile
>>>
>>>
>>> And then in the .Rprofile file, I wrote below code :
>>>
>>> options(help_type = ‘html’)
>>>
>>> However after that when I start R (from Terminal) I get below error on loading R
>>>
>>> Error: 1:20: unexpected input
>>>
>>> 1: options(help_type = ?
>>>
>>>                       ^
>>
>> Those don't look like ASCII quotes.  Use the R.app editor, not Textedit, and it won't put in funny "smart quotes".
>
>
> Alternatively, you can set TextEdit to not use "Smart quotes"  by disabling them in:
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>   Preferences -> New Document
>
> There is a checkbox under Options for Smart quotes. Uncheck it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>>
>>> [Previously saved workspace restored]
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone please point me on where I made mistake.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time.
>



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