On 30/09/2014, 5:41 AM, Sven E. Templer wrote: > Hello, > > how can I open (by an R command) the index page in html mode, as obtained by: > > options(browser="firefox") # or any other > options(help_type="html") > ?help > # and then following the html reference on the page bottom named "Index" > > In text mode I know library(help='utils') to open the utils package > index (as in the example above). Setting options(text_mode="html") and > options(browser="firefox") does not affect this behaviour. Also in > ?help.start and ?help (or ?"?") I found no clues. >
There is no built-in function that opens that page. If you want to write one, the URL is http://127.0.0.1:XXXXXX/library/PPPPPP/html/00Index.html where -- XXXXXX is the port being used for the help system, available via tools:::httpdPort. (If that is 0, call tools::startDynamicHelp() to start it up.) -- PPPPPP is the name of the package whose index you want. You can look through the tools:::httpd function for other patterns. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
