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
>>
>>
>>
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