options(browser="netscape"), e.g. in R_HOME/etc/environ, or just call help.start(browser="netscape"): this is all in ?help.start.
Note the issue is how you set up the Java plugin: search the archives for hints (which were to look on the mozilla release notes archive, as I recall). Mozilla 1.1 can I believe be made to work if some link is added. On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Sam McClatchie wrote: > System info: > Mandrake 9.0 > R Version 1.6.1 > ESS 5.1.21 > Emacs 21.2.1 > ------------------- > > Colleagues > > I understand that help.start() search function works with netscape and > although it may also work with latest versions of mazilla it doesn't > seem to with the one I'm using (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; > rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826). I thought that there were instructions for > setting up the browser for help.start() in the Mandrake-Readme.txt at > <http://www.cran.r-project.org/>, but that seems to be gone now (or > perhaps I am mistaken that it was ever there?). > > Please can you tell me where to find the setup to specify netscape as > the browser that R uses? I want to keep mozilla as my primary browser. > > Best fishes > > Sam > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
