Package: ess Version: 2.3.1-1 Hi,
If you start up ESS in R mode using M-x R, and then execute a command like: help(gpar, package=grid) rather than open another window with the help shown, ESS dumps the help into the current buffer. I poked around in lisp/ess-inf.el to try to fix it, and think the correct location might be around line 1600, after the note saying: ;;> Also, invoking help() from the command line may lead to confusing ;;> output, somewhat worse with R than with S. You're not really supposed ;;> to do that (use C-c C-v to invoke ess-display-help-on-object), but it's ;;> an obvious newcomer's mistake. I'm not intimately familiar with the "preferred" method of invoking help in ESS, and I think I'd prefer to use the standard R method of just calling help() with a package argument, as above, but if C-c C-v is preferred, how does one look up help on an object in another package? Ethan
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