On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:20 PM, claudia tebaldi wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just this morning I upgraded to R 2.12.0 (for Mac OS X 10.6.4).
> All went well until I needed to run a help() or help.search() in my session,
> which I'm running within Emacs (ESS 5.3.7).
> Say I need help with the command 'density'. When I type
>
> help(density)
> or
> ?density
>
> the ESS help buffer opens, it is titled *help[R](density)* but it contains
> only a couple of lines saying, e.g.,
>
> Error in help("density", htmlhelp = FALSE) :
> unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALSE)
>
> This is a problem only running R within emacs. The command help() works fine
> if I run R at the command line in a terminal window or if I use the
> stand-alone R application.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Claudia
Put the following in your ~/.emacs file:
(setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", help_type=\"html\")\n")
You might also want to update to ESS 5.11:
http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
or consider using Vincent Goulet's pre-packaged Emacs 23/ESS install:
http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/mac
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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