Hi, Thanks for your persistence and kind help.
(1) Comparing output of options() R.app options() includes $help_type [1] "html" that terminal R options() does not. Here's the diff of the two... ben@gale ~ $ diff R-vanilla-options R-app-options 81c81 < <bytecode: 0x7fd3f638b858> --- > <bytecode: 0x7fd0b1fcbbc0> 107a108,110 > $help_type > [1] "html" > 181,182c184,185 < CRAN < "@CRAN@" --- > CRAN > "http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca"; 244c247 < [1] 80 --- > [1] 168 (2) Removing ~/Library/Preferences/org.R-project.R.plist Starting R.app after removing the plist does not resolve the blank help window (but did restore R.app's factory-default appearance and settings.) > help("help") # brings up blank help page starting httpd help server ... done > On Oct 18, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Two things: > > 1. Can one or both of you guys check locally on your own computers, to see if > there is any difference between the output of options() in R.app, versus the > output when R is run from a Terminal session. Many elements will not be > germane to this issue, but others might, if there are differences. > > Just wondering if some option() is altered from the default and/or causing a > conflict unique to R.app. > > > > 2. Exit from R.app so that it is not running. > > Then look for the file: > > ~/Library/Preferences/org.R-project.R.plist > > From what I can tell, that is the file that stores the default settings and > user specific Preferences configurations for R.app. > > With R.app NOT running, delete that file, or drag it to the desktop, if > preferred. > > Then start R.app and see what happens with help. The above .plist file, will > be created new, with the new R.app session, so will return to default > settings. Perhaps there is something in there screwing things up. > > > Marc > > <snip> > Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380 East Boothbay, Maine 04544 http://www.bigelow.org Ecological Forecasting: https://eco.bigelow.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
