Re: "R" help leaves out lines of text
On 4/17/2015 8:57 PM, paul wrote: Marco Atzeri gmail.com> writes: I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the same symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty. The computer is in a locked down environment, so a straight update of cygwin packages is not an option. From the R forum, the problem might be due to improper handling of line endings by the R port to cygwin. Is there anything further I can try to circumvent the problem? My version info is: 64-bit Cygwin DLL version 1.7.28 R version 3.0.1-1 Are the input files Unix style or DOS style ? Can you give an example to replicate your finding ? I can that test than if the last R-3.1.3-1 package behaves correctly or not. R-3.0.1-1 package is almost 2 years old. I can't actually find the help files; the documentation is available as info files. $ cygcheck -l R |grep info /usr/share/info/R-admin.info.gz /usr/share/info/R-data.info.gz /usr/share/info/R-exts.info-1.gz /usr/share/info/R-exts.info-2.gz /usr/share/info/R-exts.info.gz /usr/share/info/R-FAQ.info.gz /usr/share/info/R-intro.info.gz /usr/share/info/R-ints.info.gz /usr/share/info/R-lang.info.gz For what I can see the help data are also present. The formatting could be better but I have no problem in reading. If you are looking for a HTML browser help, of course it is not configured. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: "R" help leaves out lines of text
Marco Atzeri gmail.com> writes: >> I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find >> that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is >> /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the >> same symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty. The >> computer is in a locked down environment, so a straight update of >> cygwin packages is not an option. From the R forum, the problem >> might be due to improper handling of line endings by the R port to >> cygwin. >> >> Is there anything further I can try to circumvent the problem? >> >> My version info is: >> >> 64-bit Cygwin DLL version 1.7.28 >> R version 3.0.1-1 >> > > Are the input files Unix style or DOS style ? > Can you give an example to replicate your finding ? > > I can that test than if the last R-3.1.3-1 package behaves correctly > or not. R-3.0.1-1 package is almost 2 years old. I can't actually find the help files; I suspect that they are not just plain text. I tried looking for html versions of the help pages by ferruting through the R.home() subtree. Haven't found them so far. There are package pages in subdirectories /html/00Index.html, but they just contain links to html files that don't reside in my R.home() subtree. There are also subdirectories /help, but they contain pages that I don't recognize (*.rds, *.rdb, *.rdx). As an example, I've attached the output from ?help at the very end below. My current workaround is to use the following in my ~/.Rprofile, which forces the help to a browser: options(browser="cygstart") options(help_type="html") Here's the bad result from help(help,help_type="text"): help package:utils R DocumentationDocumentation Description: Usage: help(topic, package = NULL, lib.loc = NULL, verbose = getOption("verbose"), try.all.packages = getOption("help.try.all.packages"), help_type = getOption("help_type")) Arguments: lines 1-23- ("less" prompt) Details: The following types of help are available: Plain text help If a package is specified, (text or, in interactive use only, HTML) information on the package, including hints/links to suitable help topics. lines 24-46- ("less" prompt) Offline help: Note: References: Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) _The New S Language_. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. See Also: Examples: help() help(help) # the same lines 47-69- ("less" prompt) help(lapply) help("for") # or ?"for", but quotes/backticks are needed try({# requires working TeX installation: help(dgamma, help_type = "pdf") ## -> nicely formatted pdf -- including math formula -- for help (dgamma): system2(getOption("pdfviewer"), "dgamma.pdf", wait = FALSE) }) help(package = "splines") # get help even when package is not loaded topi <- "women" help(topi) try(help("bs", try.all.packages = FALSE)) # reports not found (an error) help("bs", try.all.packages = TRUE) # reports can be found # in package 'splines' ## For programmatic use: topic <- "family"; pkg_ref <- "stats" help((topic), (pkg_ref)) lines 70-92- ("less" prompt) help("for") # or ?"for", but quotes/backticks are needed try({# requires working TeX installation: help(dgamma, help_type = "pdf") ## -> nicely formatted pdf -- including math formula -- for help (dgamma): system2(getOption("pdfviewer"), "dgamma.pdf", wait = FALSE) }) help(package = "splines") # get help even when package is not loaded topi <- "women" help(topi) try(help("bs", try.all.packages = FALSE)) # reports not found (an error) help("bs", try.all.packages = TRUE) # reports can be found
Re: "R" help leaves out lines of text
On 4/16/2015 4:22 PM, paul wrote: I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the same symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty. The computer is in a locked down environment, so a straight update of cygwin packages is not an option. From the R forum, the problem might be due to improper handling of line endings by the R port to cygwin. Is there anything further I can try to circumvent the problem? My version info is: 64-bit Cygwin DLL version 1.7.28 R version 3.0.1-1 Are the input files Unix style or DOS style ? Can you give an example to replicate your finding ? I can that test than if the last R-3.1.3-1 package behaves correctly or not. R-3.0.1-1 package is almost 2 years old. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
"R" help leaves out lines of text
I am ramping up on the R statistical analysis environment. I find that the help leaves out entire lines of text. The pager is /usr/lib/R/bin/pager. I changed it to /bin/less, but I see the same symptom. The problem shows up both in xterm and mintty. The computer is in a locked down environment, so a straight update of cygwin packages is not an option. From the R forum, the problem might be due to improper handling of line endings by the R port to cygwin. Is there anything further I can try to circumvent the problem? My version info is: 64-bit Cygwin DLL version 1.7.28 R version 3.0.1-1 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
