Hi Katharina and Dirk,
just one KDE-specific addition which might be interesting on Kubuntu
under option ii):
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071113 01:00]:
>
> Katharina,
>
> On 12 November 2007 at 23:50, Katharina Manderscheid wrote:
> | is there a way to make r open the help file in a separate window?
>
> How did you start R? In a terminal window like xterm, konsole, ... ?
>
> | i'm quite new to linux(kubuntu) and used to work with r under windows...
>
> A few things come to mind:
>
> i) Cheap: Just open another xterm, konsole, ... and run R there to
> invoke help()
>
> ii) Still cheap: call help.start() to launch a browser, and look
> at the help via the browser
if you have the line
options("browser"="kfmclient newTab")
in your .Rprofile, you will have a tabbed help browser at now extra
cost after calling help.start() :)
Cheers,
Johannes
> iii) Fancier: Try using Emacs and ESS, help will then be in another buffer
>
> iv) Alternatively: Use another program as the pager via the PAGER
> environment variable, or via options()
>
> v) Harder: Use JGR, but that is not trivial to set up, though it is
> possible on Debian and Ubuntu.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
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