Hi, I am working on Mac OS X 10.6. R-version: 2.9.0.
> the Mac GUI will intercept the call and do HTML display in the internal > browser With internal browser you mean a built-in browser of R? Is there also a way to invoke Safari to display the help-file (with the common help-functions)? With internal you mean On 30.03.2010, at 19:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 30/03/2010 1:46 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> Is there a way to open help files in the default web browser instead of a >> new R-window >> when I use the help-functions (like ?, help.search() etc.)? > You don't say what platform you're using. Generally the way to do this is to > run options(help_type="html") but that doesn't necessarily work on all > platforms: the Mac GUI will intercept the call and do HTML display in the > internal browser; other platforms may not be able to run the HTML server. > > 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.