John McKown <john.archie.mckown <at> gmail.com> writes: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Paul <Paul.Domaskis <at> gmail.com> >wrote: > > http://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_r_online.php
John, I appreciate the pointer. I wish the post quoted below had made it to the mailing list, as I could have saved you the trouble of trying to seek a solution on my behalf. I'm quite happy using vim and in fact consider it to be my right hand (even though I don't dive under the hood much). So this post was really about getting around the broken cygwin help facility for R rather than editing. Also, at work, we have to keep the work on-site. For those unfortunate enough to have no option but to use cygwin's R, here is the posting re. a workaround to the broken help facility, posted via nabble (which probably explains why it didn't make it to the mailing list): > Sent: April-16-15 5:51 PM > Subject: Re: Need online version of R help pages > > I was able to get the help info for many of the commands from the > link for "The R Reference Index" at > http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html. > > However, I found that I could also get help from the R prompt via > > help(myHelpTopic,help_type="html") > > To make that work, I needed options(browser="cygstart") in > ~/.Rprofile. > > Very puzzling to a non-web-developer like myself: The URL for the > help content is (for example) > http://127.0.0.1:16086/library/stats/html/reshape.html. This is a > loop-back address. I did *not* see any file named reshape.html in > subdirectory library/stats/html/reshape.html when I went to > R.home(). > > I thought that perhaps the file was being composed on the fly. > However, I was under the distinct impression that my account did not > have the ability to set up servers (and I assume that the page that > is composed on the fly must be served out by a server). ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
