[R] Activating html help in R 2.10

[Marc Schwartz]

On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

> After reading the news about the release of R 2.10 I expected that  
> typing for example ?cut would automatically open a web browser.  But  
> I don't see any difference in how help is displayed under Ubuntu  
> Linux (karmic).  How does one activate the new dynamic html help?
>
> Thanks
> Frank

Frank,

Set:

   options(help_type="html")

in your .Rprofile file.

See ?options and ?help for more info.

Regards,

Marc