On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:20 PM, claudia tebaldi wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Just this morning I upgraded to R 2.12.0 (for Mac OS X 10.6.4).
>> All went well until I needed to run a help() or help.search() in my session,
>> which I'm running within Emacs (ESS 5.3.7).
>> Say I need help with the command 'density'. When I type
>>
>> help(density)
>> or
>> ?density
>>
>> the ESS help buffer opens, it is titled *help[R](density)* but it contains
>> only a couple of lines saying, e.g.,
>>
>> Error in help("density", htmlhelp = FALSE) :
>> unused argument(s) (htmlhelp = FALSE)
>>
>> This is a problem only running R within emacs. The command help() works fine
>> if I run R at the command line in a terminal window or if I use the
>> stand-alone R application.
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> Claudia
>
>
> Put the following in your ~/.emacs file:
>
> (setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", help_type=\"html\")\n")
>
>
> You might also want to update to ESS 5.11:
>
> http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
>
> or consider using Vincent Goulet's pre-packaged Emacs 23/ESS install:
>
> http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/mac
One quick additional note. The above .emacs inclusion requires ESS 5.5 or
greater. So you will definitely need to update. 5.3.7 is over two years old.
Marc
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