?help (see argument help_type) ?options This has been asked before. My understanding is that there was a licensing issue with Microsoft's compiled html help; so what you need to do is specify
options(help_type = "html") in your startup process. There are a variety of ways to do so, explained in ?Startup . Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Bouldin Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:44 AM To: R help Subject: [R] no html help upon upgrading to 2.10 I just upgraded from 2.8.1 to 2.10 on Windows Vista. BIG MISTAKE apparently because now when I type: > help(functionname) or ?functionname I get only a small text window giving some very basic info on the topic, e.g.: base-package package:base R Documentation The R Base Package Description: Base R functions Details: This package contains the basic functions which let R function as a language: arithmetic, input/output, basic programming support, etc. Its contents are available through inheritance from any environment. For a complete list of functions, use 'library(help="base")'. and not the html help screen with full package or function description like I used to. Exceedingly problematic, and I can find nothing either in the FAQs or the R search sites on what to do. Solutions much appreciated, thanks. Jim Bouldin, PhD Research Ecologist Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis Davis CA, 95616 530-554-1740 ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
