I'm trying to get help to print the help pages in html format to the terminal. This is in order to be able to see the html help files remotely.
If I do printURL = function(file) {a=readLines(url(file));cat(a,sep="\n")} options(browser=printURL) options(help_type="html") then invoking help with ?print gets stuck. I think what happens is that the web server run by R that allows one to read help will not work as long as R is waiting for the function to complete. Thus, if I run a second R session, and try to read the help files that one session produces from the other, I have no problems. I also tried options(browser="wget -O- ") But again, while R is waiting for the command to complete, the web server is dead. Is there a better way to accomplish this? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/printing-html-help-to-the-terminal-tp2313801p2313801.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.