[R] help in a separate window under linux

[Richard A. Bilonick]

Hi,

None of these "pager" things work right. No matter what I set up, if I type


> page(data.frame.name)

a window opens and the object structure is shown. This can certainly be useful
when transferring data, but it's not usually what I want. I would like to see
the data in a table format, similar to what "print" does but in a separate,
scrollable window, more like what S does.

Rick Bilonick

>I suspect that installing xless and use that as the pager might be easier...

>
>Andy
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Dalgaard BSA [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:34 AM
>> To: baron at cattell.psych.upenn.edu
>> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; stuart.leask at nottingham.ac.uk
>> Subject: Re: [R] help in a separate window under linux
>> 
>> 
>> baron at cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Jonathan Baron) writes:
>> 
>> > >From owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Tue Sep 18 07:23:04 2001
>> > >Is there a simple way of configuring R under linux to put 
>> its help messages
>> > >into a separate, new console?
>> > 
>> > 1. help.start() puts them in a browser.
>> > 
>> > 2. You can make a bookmark or button on your browser for the R
>> > documents in html on your disk, usually in /usr/lib/R/doc/html.
>> > 
>> > 3. You can have R itself running twice in different windows, once
>> > just for help.  This is probably the most straightforward answer.
>> > (In Gnome, you can put it in a different virtual desktop, and
>> > switch back and forth with alt-shift-arrow - which is exceedingly
>> > easy on a Kinesis keyboard.  I do this because my monitor is only
>> > 17 inches, which is about right for one window.)
>> > 
>> > 4. You can use ESS, which uses the bottom half of the screen for
>> > help.  I usually find that I want the whole screen, though, so I
>> > end up closing the help window.
>> > 
>> > Perhaps there are other answers.  Jon Baron
>> 
>> 5. library(tcltk); options(pager=tkpager)
>> 
>> 6. options(pager="./mypager") with mypager
>> #!/bin/sh
>> cat > /tmp/foo
>> xterm -e less /tmp/foo &
>> 
>> (getting a unique tempfile name and removing it when you're through
>> reading is - um - an exercise for the reader)
>> 
>> 7. options(pager=function(file, header, title, delete.file)
>>      system(paste("xterm", "-e less", file, "&")))
>> 
>> (getting the title right is going to be tricky:  it is generally
>> something like "R Help on `ls'" and the quotes will confuse 
>> the shell) 
>> 
>> The latter two obviously only work when less is installed...
>> 
>> -- 
>>    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
>>   c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N   
>>  (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: 
>> (+45) 35327918
>> ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: 
>> (+45) 35327907
>> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
>> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
>> r-help mailing list -- Read 
>> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
>> Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
>> (in the "body", not the subject !)  To: 
>> r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
>> _._._._._._._._._
>> 
>
>-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

>r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html

>Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
>(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
>_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._

>
>
Rick Bilonick
---
rab at nauticom.net
http://www.nauticom.net
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._