I just tried it under OSX and linux, and both get stuck. Maybe R on windows forks the R help server?
But what you suggested works perfectly. Thanks! Do you by chance know if there was something equivalent in R 2.10.x and/or 2.9.x Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > > On 04/08/2010 12:44 PM, Michael Lachmann wrote: >> I'm trying to get help to print the help pages in html format to the >> terminal. This is in order to be able to see the html help files >> remotely. >> >> If I do >> printURL = function(file) {a=readLines(url(file));cat(a,sep="\n")} >> options(browser=printURL) >> options(help_type="html") >> >> then invoking help with >> ?print >> >> gets stuck. I think what happens is that the web server run by R that >> allows >> one to read help will not work as long as R is waiting for the function >> to >> complete. Thus, if I run a second R session, and try to read the help >> files >> that one session produces from the other, I have no problems. >> >> I also tried >> options(browser="wget -O- ") >> >> But again, while R is waiting for the command to complete, the web server >> is >> dead. >> >> Is there a better way to accomplish this? >> >> > > What you're doing should work, and it works for me in 2.11.1 in > Windows. Not sure why it doesn't work for you. > > A more direct way to get the HTML output for a help file is to use the > internal utilities that R uses. You get the help page using > > page <- utils:::.getHelpFile(?print) > > (remember to keep that question mark!), and use > > tools::Rd2HTML(page) > > to turn it into HTML. > > > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/printing-html-help-to-the-terminal-tp2313801p2313983.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.