On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Bill Northcott <w.northcott@unsw.edu.au>wrote:

> I am trying to get StatET (an Eclipse plugin for R/S) working on MacOS.
>
> I can bring up a functioning R console within Eclipse but have a problem
> with help().
>
> If I set options browser="/usr/bin/open" and htmlHelp=TRUE, then help(name)
> brings up the appropriate help page in the default browser.
>
> However, help() with no argument brings up help(help).   This is what
> happens with help() running R in a Terminal.  What I would like to get is
> the help index page which is at
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/doc/html/index.html
> as when one selects Help in the R gui.
>
> Is there any way to do this?


Does help.start() do what you want?  I don't use Eclipse, so I wouldn't know
for sure.

Sean

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