While we are on the topic, if you wanted to go the other way (open help in
terminal without a whole R session) you can do
R --no-init-file --slave -e "?sd"
I suspect this does start an R session in the background, but makes for a
clean way to view docs through terminal if you use an alias.
Cheers,
Alex
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Dmitri Popavenko <dmitri.popave...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Dear Sarah, dear David,
>
> Thank you very much indeed, this is exactly what I needed.
>
> Best,
> Dmitri
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Here are two options:
> >
> > > # for one occurrence
> > > help("help", help_type="html")
> > starting httpd help server ... done
> > >
> > > # to set the default for your R session
> > > options(help_type = "html")
> > > ?help
> >
> > If you read the help file for help(), you will see all the possibilities.
> >
> > Sarah
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Dmitri Popavenko
> > <dmitri.popave...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear R users,
> > >
> > > I am sometimes using R from a Terminal (either from Linux but most
> often
> > on
> > > MacOS).
> > > When looking at a help file using the question mark (e.g. ?sd) the help
> > > file opens in the Terminal itself.
> > >
> > > If possible, I would like to open the HTML version of the help file in
> a
> > > webpage, but I am completely unaware of how this might be done.
> > >
> > > If anyone has a suggestion, I would be very grateful.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Dmitri
> >
> > --
> > Sarah Goslee
> > http://www.functionaldiversity.org
> >
>
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