Re: [R] printing html help to the terminal

2010-08-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 04/08/2010 2:40 PM, Michael Lachmann wrote: I just tried it under OSX and linux, and both get stuck. Maybe R on windows forks the R help server? It doesn't fork, but it might run in another thread. But what you suggested works perfectly. Thanks! Do you by chance know if there was somet

Re: [R] printing html help to the terminal

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Lachmann
I just tried it under OSX and linux, and both get stuck. Maybe R on windows forks the R help server? But what you suggested works perfectly. Thanks! Do you by chance know if there was something equivalent in R 2.10.x and/or 2.9.x Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > > On 04/08/2010 12:44 PM, Michael Lac

Re: [R] printing html help to the terminal

2010-08-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 04/08/2010 12:44 PM, Michael Lachmann wrote: 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) opt