Try this; help(anova)
I have used this in R-2.14.1 It has worked fine for me. Hope it works for you as well. Best, Heramb On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > Hello, > > I had a problem seeing the help pages with R 2.14.(0 or 1? I don't > remember) on Windows 7. > Then I realized that after a command like print, Rgui would first display > an error message saying that the temp directory used by help didn't exist. > The solution I've found was to manually create it whenever this happened. > And to issue a print statement after a missed ?function one. Apparently the > error message was waiting to be displayed somewhere. > > The problem was corrected with R 2.15.0 so I recommened you update your > installation of R. > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > Em 19-09-2012 19:19, Basil Iannone escreveu: > > Dear R-help community, >> >> I am unable to access help files when using the typical >> "?function.of.interest" command. >> >> For example, if I type "?anova", Internet Explorer opens, but I am never >> connected to the usual page describing the nuances of the anova function. >> >> This is a new problem (just started occurring a few days ago). I am >> currently using R 2.14.1 on a Windows XP machine. As suggested by someone >> else on another list serve I have placed the session info below for a >> brief >> session where this occurred. NOTE: I am not trying to access any functions >> for libraries that are not active (for example, anova is in the default >> Stats package). >> >> Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue or any insights on why this >> may be occurring are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help. >> >> sessionInfo() >>> >> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) >> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 >> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 >> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 >> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C >> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] tools_2.14.1 >> >> >> > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.