[Rd] R 2.10 and help

Jamie Love drjlove at gmail.com
Thu May 27 10:54:50 CEST 2010


Thanks to Romain, this is perfect -

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Romain Francois
<romain.francois at dbmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le 27/05/10 09:48, Jamie Love a écrit :
>>
>> Thanks for the info,
>>
>> I'm happy to use the new httpd server that serves the help files -
>> that'd definitely help. My difficulty with this approach is that I'm
>> not sure how to get the URL -
>>
>> Say for example I've done help.start(),
>>
>> then I do:
>>
>> help(plot)
>>
>> it will redirect my web browser to the plot page -
>>
>> How can I stop it touching my web browser and instead return to me the
>> URL.
>>
>> I tried overriding the browseURL() function, but it seem to do nothing.
>
> Perhaps something like this:
>
>> options( browser = function(url, ...) print( url ) )
>> ?plot
> [1] "http://127.0.0.1:9000/library/graphics/html/plot.html"
>
> Romain
>
>> Ta
>>
>>
>>>
>>> It's much more simple since 2.10 as you can simply use the URL (same URL
>>> as the help system uses). For examples see JGR or the Mac GUI. Or you can do
>>> the same thing that the Rhttpd server does  actually generating the html -
>>> see tools:::httpd
>>>
>>
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