On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Joseph Kunkel <[email protected]> wrote: > Using R 2.12.2 GUI 1.36 Leopard build 64-bit (5691) > > system('man R') gives error: 'No manual entry for R' ... ?? > > Running R in a unix window the system('man R') function provides the expected > manual entry. > > This complicates my teaching of R with the Gui if I want to use the system('R > ...') function. Students need to know unix-window-use as a prereq. > > system('man vi') however does provide the correct unix vi manual in either > unix or GUI.
Well, as you might know, setting PATH and other environment variables in the terminal using, say .profile or .bashrc, does not make them set inside of a GUI. This has been discussed many times on this list (and really has nothing to do with R at all). In this case it is because vi ships with the system and the man page for vi is in # man -w vi /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz I do not have the GUI (CRAN) version of R installed, but I would guess that the man page is in /usr/local/share ..., and you can check the directories man searches by # man -d Kasper _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
