Carl, On Dec 9, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:
> I have two separate questions about help windows. > > First: I'm running R2.12 at home under 10.5.8, and at work under 10.6.4 > (Intel iMacs in both cases). > > At home, when I invoke help, e.g., > > ?sin , > I get the help page in the Rgui help window (and my web browser is not > called). > > But at work, the Rgui help window opens, remains blank, and the sin help page > shows up in my default web browser. > > Is there a way I can either force my work machine to use the Rgui window, or > at the least stop the useless help window from opening up? > The default is what you see at home - and that is the intended behavior. There is a preference "use.external.help" that allows you to use an external browser (at the request of some users) - you can enable it using (in Terminal): defaults write org.R-project.R use.external.help YES and disable it using defaults delete org.R-project.R use.external.help So chances are that you enabled it at some point in the past (maybe?) - it's definitely NOT the default. Alternatively (if that's not the issue?) it may be some strange setting of your browser - but you'd have to provide more detains on that (e.g. do you use a custom browser instead of Safari which may be forcing that behavior?). Cheers, Simon > Am I able to use the Rgui help window at home just thru some luck of > pre-existing conditions (from the R 2.8 or 2.9 days)? > > I checked, and the Library/Frameworks/.../base/R/Rprofile files are the same > on both machines, as are my personal .Rprofile and .Renvir files in my home > directory. > > > Second: I noticed that on both machines, when I use the Search bar in the > document editor window (Rgui editor window), the little pop-up results panel > displays the help page, with properly functioning links to referenced help > pages. This suggests the help system is working "behind the scenes" somehow > on my work machine, even though it fails to access the Rgui Help window. > Anything I can do to adjust this? > > > Many thanks for your help. > > > Carl > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
