On Aug 12, 2014, at 2:33 PM, John Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list members, > > Is there a way to bypass the R.app help browser, and to use instead an > alternative browser, such as the one pointed to by getOption("browser")? > > I've tried a number of strategies, including setting .Platform$GUI <- > "unknown". The only approach I tried that works is to mask the help() > function with a modified version, but this produces other problems, such as > referencing unexported objects from utils and tools. > > It would be nice if the help() function had a browser argument, similar to > that in browseURL(), and defaulting to the current behaviour. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > John
John, I found this post from Simon that seems to work: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-December/006908.html I tried it on my Mac in the latest version of R.app, which I normally do not use and the help system does now popup a browser. Regards, Marc Schwartz _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
