[R] R help from command line

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I frequently need to open multiple help pages in R, which requires the
> start of multiple R sessions. I am wondering if there is a way to
> invoke the help page from the command line just like 'man'.

I haven't been paying attention, but are you working on a machine with  
a windowing system + browser?

If so, set your help files to be seen in the browser:

R> option(htmlhelp=TRUE)

next time you ask for some ?help, it should pop up a browser window.

Good enough?

-steve

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