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 > > >
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