[R] HTML help missing?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Nov 20 17:07:43 CET 2009


On 20/11/2009 7:11 AM, Antje wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm running R 2.10 on Windows XP (Professional) and I was wondering 
> where the HTML help window disappeared?
> With earlier versions everything was fine. Now I get only this 
> old-fashioned text windows without any links when I type
> ?some_function
> Can anybody help me?
Edit the R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site file to uncomment the line

options(help_type="html")

(or just install the patched version, this installer bug was discovered 
after release).

Duncan Murdoch




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