You are correct that it only comes up in the text pager when I invoke R from the terminal (with or without --vanilla).
RStudio help works as expected in the sense that help content is rendered within the RStudio panes on the "Help" tab - just as you surmised. Cheers (really!), Ben > On Oct 18, 2018, at 5:32 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > A question, because as I go back and re-read both this thread and the prior > one you posted on this issue, I have been presuming that when you run R from > the terminal, you can successfully get help to open in an external browser. > > However, given my re-read and what you now post below, I am wondering if, in > fact, when running R in the terminal, you simply get the help displaying in > the text pager. > > I don't use RStudio, so not sure if help comes up in their own internal > browser, or if it comes up in an external browser. Albeit, looking at their > website, it appears to be an internal browser that stays within the IDE, in > contrast to R.app opening the internal browser in an external window. > > Can you confirm that when you run R from the terminal, does help appear > within the terminal window in the pager, or does it come up in whatever > external browser you are using, which I am guessing is Firefox based upon the > output below. > > Thanks, > > Marc > > > >> On Oct 18, 2018, at 5:09 PM, Ben Tupper <btup...@bigelow.org >> <mailto:btup...@bigelow.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> In a fresh R.app session >> >>> debug(get("aqua.browser", envir = as.environment("tools:RGUI"))) >>> help('help') >> starting httpd help server ... done >> debugging in: browser(if (encodeIfNeeded) URLencode(url) else url) >> debug: { >> x <- gsub("http://127.0.0.1";, "http://localhost";, x, fixed = TRUE) >> .Call("aqua.custom.print", "help-files", x) >> invisible(x) >> } >> Browse[2]> n >> debug: x <- gsub("http://127.0.0.1";, "http://localhost";, x, fixed = TRUE) >> Browse[2]> n >> debug: .Call("aqua.custom.print", "help-files", x) >> Browse[2]> browseURL(x) >> >> >> opens the external browser >> http://localhost:28450/library/utils/html/help.html >> <http://localhost:28450/library/utils/html/help.html><http://localhost:28450/library/utils/html/help.html >> <http://localhost:28450/library/utils/html/help.html>> >> >> but the browser says... >> >> "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. >> We can’t connect to the server at localhost. >> If that address is correct, here are three other things you can try: >> >> Try again later. >> Check your network connection. >> If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has >> permission to access the Web." >> >> >> And... >> >> Browse[2]> c >> exiting from: browser(if (encodeIfNeeded) URLencode(url) else url) >> >> ... opens the blank help window. >> >> >> Finally, following up on Marc's suggestion that I invoke R without >> --vanilla... >> >> ben@gale ~ $ diff R-app-options R-options >> 81c81 >> < <bytecode: 0x7fd0b1fcbbc0> >> --- >>> <bytecode: 0x7fb46a177890> >> 108,110d107 >> < $help_type >> < [1] "html" >> < >> 184,185c181,182 >> < CRAN >> < "http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca <http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/>" >> --- >>> CRAN >>> "@CRAN@" >> 247c244 >> < [1] 168 >> --- >>> [1] 80 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Oct 18, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 18/10/2018 8:50 AM, Ben Tupper wrote: >>>> I also have no firewall running on the platform. I do have >>>> anti-virus/malware and have turned it off. The help window still renders >>>> with a blank page and there is no text captured with a copy-paste. >>>> I tried debug() as Duncan suggested and get the following in a fresh R.app >>>> session... >>> >>> Okay, that wasn't as informative as I had hoped. Could you try the >>> following: >>> >>> debug(get("aqua.browser", envir = as.environment("tools:RGUI"))) >>> >>> then ask for help on something. You should stop in the debugger seeing >>> something like >>> >>> debugging in: browser(if (encodeIfNeeded) URLencode(url) else url) >>> debug: { >>> x <- gsub("http://127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/> <http://127.0.0.1/ >>> <http://127.0.0.1/>>", "http://localhost <http://localhost/> >>> <http://localhost/ <http://localhost/>>", x, fixed = TRUE) >>> .Call("aqua.custom.print", "help-files", x) >>> invisible(x) >>> } >>> >>> At the prompt, type "n" (without the quotes, followed by return) twice, >>> until you are at the .Call line. Then type >>> >>> browseURL(x) >>> >>> This should open your external browser. It will either show a blank page, >>> or the help page: that will indicate whether the problem is in the >>> internal browser or in the server. >>> >>> Then go back to R.app, and type "c". This should open the same help page >>> in the internal browser. It might show a blank page, or the regular help >>> page: either one would tell us something. >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch >>> > > <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
