On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Robert King wrote: > I use the ugly hack shown below as my .Rprofile (mainly because I couldn't > find any other way to spawn a new mozilla window on starting R or calling > help.start(), but then send all the help html documents to that new > window). > > With a recent change from a cvs checkout to the released 1.9.0 I find that > the new hs() appears if there is nothing of that name in .RData, but if > there is the old hs() there, it just stays. > > What is the cause of this?
?Startup tells you that .RData is loaded after .Rprofile is executed, but it has been that way for quite a while. So this is behaving as documented, AFAICS. What is new is that help.start() is now in package utils so you should be using utils::help.start() to be safe. > > Thanks, > Robert. > > I'm using a debian i386 system. > > .Rprofile > ========= > library(gld) > options(pager="less",CRAN="ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cran";) > hs <- function(){ > if (nchar(system("echo $DISPLAY",intern=T))==0) # no X > {options(htmlhelp=FALSE) > ret <- "no X"} > else {system("mozilla") # we have X - I'm starting this to get a new > # window for the R session, without starting a new window every > time > options(pdfviewer="/usr/local/bin/acroread",browser="mozilla") > help.start() > ret <- "X"} > ret > } -- 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 https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
