On 30/03/2010 2:19 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote:
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)?

I don't think so, but you might get a more authoritative answer on the R-sig-mac mailing list.

Duncan Murdoch


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

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