Re: [R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser [SOLVED]
Dear Ranjan, I'm afraid the command options(help_type = 'text') will not work if R is closed and opened again as the 'help_type' argument is set to 'html' by default in Windows (same for me). You should better modify the 'C:/Program Files/R/R-X.XX.X/etc/Rprofile.site' file with a text editor, as it is entitled: Things you might want to change (and this is the case indeed!) So move the # character in the following section from: # set the default help type # options(help_type=text) options(help_type=html) to: # set the default help type options(help_type=text) # options(help_type=html) and the 'help_type' argument is now definitely set to 'text' in Windows. Hope this helps! Clement -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Using-help-in-Windows-version-of-R-with-disabled-browser-tp3445284p3481275.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser [SOLVED]
On 28/04/2011 11:00 AM, cpoirier wrote: Dear Ranjan, I'm afraid the command options(help_type = 'text') will not work if R is closed and opened again as the 'help_type' argument is set to 'html' by default in Windows (same for me). That's a default, but you can change it when you install R if you don't want to find the file to edit. A re-install that de-selects most of the components won't delete them, so it's a quick way to change the startup defaults. Duncan Murdoch You should better modify the 'C:/Program Files/R/R-X.XX.X/etc/Rprofile.site' file with a text editor, as it is entitled: Things you might want to change (and this is the case indeed!) So move the # character in the following section from: # set the default help type # options(help_type=text) options(help_type=html) to: # set the default help type options(help_type=text) # options(help_type=html) and the 'help_type' argument is now definitely set to 'text' in Windows. Hope this helps! Clement -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Using-help-in-Windows-version-of-R-with-disabled-browser-tp3445284p3481275.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser [SOLVED]
Hi, Just wanted to mention that this worked perfectly. Many thanks again and best wishes, Ranjan On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:04:14 -0500 Jonathan P Daily jda...@usgs.gov wrote: try: options(help_type = 'text') ?options If this works, you can create a site profile (A default is created automatically in windows, if I remember correctly) where you can set this to run in each session. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it. - Jubal Early, Firefly From: Ranjan Maitra mai...@iastate.edu To: R-help r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Date: 04/12/2011 01:56 PM Subject: [R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser Sent by: r-help-boun...@r-project.org Dear colleagues, I am trying to get someone to use R on MS Windows with the browser disabled. My question is how does he/she get to use R-help which goes off the browser (and correspondingly complains about the inability to start firefox, etc). In linux, which is what I use, this is not a problem: what needs to be set in Windows to replicate this behavior? Sorry if I am not clear: please feel free to ask me for clarifications. Thanks again for the helpful advice! Best wishes, Ranjan __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser
Dear colleagues, I am trying to get someone to use R on MS Windows with the browser disabled. My question is how does he/she get to use R-help which goes off the browser (and correspondingly complains about the inability to start firefox, etc). In linux, which is what I use, this is not a problem: what needs to be set in Windows to replicate this behavior? Sorry if I am not clear: please feel free to ask me for clarifications. Thanks again for the helpful advice! Best wishes, Ranjan __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser
try: options(help_type = 'text') ?options If this works, you can create a site profile (A default is created automatically in windows, if I remember correctly) where you can set this to run in each session. -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it. - Jubal Early, Firefly From: Ranjan Maitra mai...@iastate.edu To: R-help r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Date: 04/12/2011 01:56 PM Subject: [R] Using help in Windows version of R with disabled browser Sent by: r-help-boun...@r-project.org Dear colleagues, I am trying to get someone to use R on MS Windows with the browser disabled. My question is how does he/she get to use R-help which goes off the browser (and correspondingly complains about the inability to start firefox, etc). In linux, which is what I use, this is not a problem: what needs to be set in Windows to replicate this behavior? Sorry if I am not clear: please feel free to ask me for clarifications. Thanks again for the helpful advice! Best wishes, Ranjan __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Using help()
Michael Kubovy wrote: Dear R-helpers, [...] (2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also get a list of pages. It sounds to me like here you want: args(dnorm) Patrick Burns patr...@burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of The R Inferno and A Guide for the Unwilling S User) Advice? It seems to me that if the output of help() listed base functions first, it would go a long way toward improving the usefulness of this function. _ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology Postal Address: P.O.Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 Express Parcels Address: Gilmer Hall, Room 102, McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Office:B011;Phone: +1-434-982-4729 Lab:B019; Phone: +1-434-982-4751 WWW:http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/ Skype name: polyurinsane [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Using help()
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Patrick Burns wrote: Michael Kubovy wrote: Dear R-helpers, [...] (2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also get a list of pages. It sounds to me like here you want: args(dnorm) or, for functions hidden in a namespace, argsAnywhere(). -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics tlum...@u.washington.eduUniversity of Washington, Seattle __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] Using help()
Dear R-helpers, I wonder if you can give me advice about the best way to use help(). (1) If I type ?normal because I forgot the name dnorm() I get a long list of relevant pages. Getting to right page is laborious. (2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also get a list of pages. Advice? It seems to me that if the output of help() listed base functions first, it would go a long way toward improving the usefulness of this function. _ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology Postal Address: P.O.Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 Express Parcels Address: Gilmer Hall, Room 102, McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Office:B011;Phone: +1-434-982-4729 Lab:B019; Phone: +1-434-982-4751 WWW:http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/ Skype name: polyurinsane [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Using help()
On 25/01/2009, at 2:33 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
Dear R-helpers,
I wonder if you can give me advice about the best way to use help().
(1) If I type ?normal because I forgot the name dnorm() I get a long
list of relevant pages. Getting to right page is laborious.
(2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also
get a list of pages.
Advice?
It seems to me that if the output of help() listed base functions
first, it would go a long way toward improving the usefulness of this
function.
I get the impression that you are confusing ``??'' and ``?''.
If you type ``?normal'' you get a ``No documentation found'' message.
If you type ``??normal'' you indeed get a long list of pages, some of
which might be relevant. (If you want help on ``dnorm'' then the
relevant
page is stats::Normal. And then typing ``?Normal'' gets you what you
want. Which is somewhat on the obscure side of obvious, IMHO.)
If you type ``?dnorm'' then you get exactly what you want immediately.
Exactly? Well, there's also info on pnorm, qnorm, and rnorm, but I
expect you can live with that.
Note that listing base functions first won't help you at all in this
instance, since dnorm is in ***stats***, not in ***base***.
There is no easy answer to ``How do I find the right function when I
can't remember its name?''. The ``??'' construct, RSiteSearch(),
some Wiki-s that lurk about the traps, the task views on CRAN, and a
few other things all help, but none of them solves the problem
completely.
When all else fails, post to this list and resign yourself to the fact
you'll probably get a flame along with the answer to your question!
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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Re: [R] Using help() [or more likely help.search)_]
??'normal distribution' seems to do rather well. If you know that you
want results from 'stats' you can confine the search to that package.
'normal' is such an overloaded word that searching for it is going to
be overwhelming. At least 'Normal' is AFAIR only used in one sense in
statistics.
``onr could argue that listing the standard and recommended packades
at the top of the help.search results -- patches to do so would be
considered. (Some of us keep other packages in separate libraries, in
which case searching in R --vanilla does this automaticaly.)
A quck look at a good book on S/R would solve such basic issues as
quickly as anything.
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 25/01/2009, at 2:33 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
Dear R-helpers,
I wonder if you can give me advice about the best way to use help().
(1) If I type ?normal because I forgot the name dnorm() I get a long
list of relevant pages. Getting to right page is laborious.
(2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also
get a list of pages.
Advice?
It seems to me that if the output of help() listed base functions
first, it would go a long way toward improving the usefulness of this
function.
I get the impression that you are confusing ``??'' and ``?''.
If you type ``?normal'' you get a ``No documentation found'' message.
If you type ``??normal'' you indeed get a long list of pages, some of
which might be relevant. (If you want help on ``dnorm'' then the relevant
page is stats::Normal. And then typing ``?Normal'' gets you what you
want. Which is somewhat on the obscure side of obvious, IMHO.)
If you type ``?dnorm'' then you get exactly what you want immediately.
Exactly? Well, there's also info on pnorm, qnorm, and rnorm, but I
expect you can live with that.
Note that listing base functions first won't help you at all in this
instance, since dnorm is in ***stats***, not in ***base***.
There is no easy answer to ``How do I find the right function when I
can't remember its name?''. The ``??'' construct, RSiteSearch(),
some Wiki-s that lurk about the traps, the task views on CRAN, and a
few other things all help, but none of them solves the problem completely.
When all else fails, post to this list and resign yourself to the fact
you'll probably get a flame along with the answer to your question!
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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