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

Christofer Bogaso bogaso.christofer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 16:10:29 CEST 2017


I am not getting error.

However help page is not opening in html.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 10, 2017, at 10:33 PM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Performed steps according to Marc's suggestions :
>>
>> But not help page is not openning in Browser.
>
>
> Are you getting the same error as before?
>
> Do the single quotes still look like smart quotes or regular ASCII quotes?
>
> Marc
>
>
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>  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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