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.
Cheer
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
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 wrote:
> Here are two options:
>
> > # for one occurrence
> > help("help", help_type="html")
> starting httpd help server ... done
> >
> > # to set the d
> On Jun 7, 2018, at 8:21 AM, Dmitri Popavenko
> 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,
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 c
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