Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help
Thanks for the info, I'm happy to use the new httpd server that serves the help files - that'd definitely help. My difficulty with this approach is that I'm not sure how to get the URL - Say for example I've done help.start(), then I do: help(plot) it will redirect my web browser to the plot page - How can I stop it touching my web browser and instead return to me the URL. I tried overriding the browseURL() function, but it seem to do nothing. Ta It's much more simple since 2.10 as you can simply use the URL (same URL as the help system uses). For examples see JGR or the Mac GUI. Or you can do the same thing that the Rhttpd server does actually generating the html - see tools:::httpd -- Jamie Love __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help
Le 27/05/10 09:48, Jamie Love a écrit : Thanks for the info, I'm happy to use the new httpd server that serves the help files - that'd definitely help. My difficulty with this approach is that I'm not sure how to get the URL - Say for example I've done help.start(), then I do: help(plot) it will redirect my web browser to the plot page - How can I stop it touching my web browser and instead return to me the URL. I tried overriding the browseURL() function, but it seem to do nothing. Perhaps something like this: options( browser = function(url, ...) print( url ) ) ?plot [1] http://127.0.0.1:9000/library/graphics/html/plot.html; Romain Ta It's much more simple since 2.10 as you can simply use the URL (same URL as the help system uses). For examples see JGR or the Mac GUI. Or you can do the same thing that the Rhttpd server does actually generating the html - see tools:::httpd -- Romain Francois Professional R Enthusiast +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr |- http://bit.ly/cork4b : highlight 0.1-8 |- http://bit.ly/bklUXt : RcppArmadillo 0.2.1 `- http://bit.ly/936ck2 : Rcpp 0.8.0 __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help
Thanks to Romain, this is perfect - On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Romain Francois romain.franc...@dbmail.com wrote: Le 27/05/10 09:48, Jamie Love a écrit : Thanks for the info, I'm happy to use the new httpd server that serves the help files - that'd definitely help. My difficulty with this approach is that I'm not sure how to get the URL - Say for example I've done help.start(), then I do: help(plot) it will redirect my web browser to the plot page - How can I stop it touching my web browser and instead return to me the URL. I tried overriding the browseURL() function, but it seem to do nothing. Perhaps something like this: options( browser = function(url, ...) print( url ) ) ?plot [1] http://127.0.0.1:9000/library/graphics/html/plot.html; Romain Ta It's much more simple since 2.10 as you can simply use the URL (same URL as the help system uses). For examples see JGR or the Mac GUI. Or you can do the same thing that the Rhttpd server does actually generating the html - see tools:::httpd -- Romain Francois Professional R Enthusiast +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr |- http://bit.ly/cork4b : highlight 0.1-8 |- http://bit.ly/bklUXt : RcppArmadillo 0.2.1 `- http://bit.ly/936ck2 : Rcpp 0.8.0 -- Jamie Love Looking for custom software development? Contact us at www.nsquaredsoftware.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
[Rd] R 2.10 and help
Hi all, I've been developing a little project for the past few months on R2.9. The project utilises RServe to access R over at tcp/ip connection. One feature of the project is to take R-Help and display it to the user through my own UI. In 2.9 this worked well as all the html help was pre-generated - I could ask R to find the help (e.g. help(plot) would return the rd file), and then I could look up the .html file from that. In R 2.10 things changed dramatically for help, and now html help is generated when requested from the rd files. I've tried various ways to access the help as HTML since then, but I've had no luck. I was wondering if anyone would be able to suggest an approach where I could run 'help(plot)', and then take the resulting .rd file and generate the necessary html help from it. Thanks, -- Jamie Love __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help
On May 26, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Jamie Love wrote: Hi all, I've been developing a little project for the past few months on R2.9. The project utilises RServe to access R over at tcp/ip connection. One feature of the project is to take R-Help and display it to the user through my own UI. In 2.9 this worked well as all the html help was pre-generated - I could ask R to find the help (e.g. help(plot) would return the rd file), and then I could look up the .html file from that. In R 2.10 things changed dramatically for help, and now html help is generated when requested from the rd files. I've tried various ways to access the help as HTML since then, but I've had no luck. I was wondering if anyone would be able to suggest an approach where I could run 'help(plot)', and then take the resulting .rd file and generate the necessary html help from it. It's much more simple since 2.10 as you can simply use the URL (same URL as the help system uses). For examples see JGR or the Mac GUI. Or you can do the same thing that the Rhttpd server does actually generating the html - see tools:::httpd Cheers, Simon __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] R 2.10 and help
I've tried various ways to access the help as HTML since then, but I've had no luck. I was wondering if anyone would be able to suggest an approach where I could run 'help(plot)', and then take the resulting .rd file and generate the necessary html help from it. It's much more simple since 2.10 as you can simply use the URL (same URL as the help system uses). For examples see JGR or the Mac GUI. Or you can do the same thing that the Rhttpd server does actually generating the html - see tools:::httpd Another approach along the same lines is the in progress helpr package: http://github.com/hadley/helpr Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
