The R HTML help is running a server in the background.
Making R to process events requires calls to
rinterface.process_revents() (there is more about that in the rpy2
documentation, and will be even more for 2.1beta)
L.
On 2/18/10 6:36 AM, Carson Farmer wrote:
> I am attempting to retrieve the R html help via help.start() using
> rpy2 but I am not getting the behaviour I would except.
>> From R:
>> help.start()
> starting httpd help server ... done
> If 'xdg-open' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must
> switch to its window.
> Otherwise, be patient ...
>
>> From Rpy2:
>>>> import rpy2.robjects as robs
>>>> robs.r('help.start()')
> starting httpd help server ... done
> If 'xdg-open' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must
> switch to its window.
> Otherwise, be patient ...
> <RObject - Python:0x31e13f8 / R:0x2997ef8>
>
> but the port in this case appears to be wrong? Because the html is
> never displayed/generated?
>
> At first I thought it might have something to do with having multiple
> instances of R open or something, but I can have two separate
> (regular) R sessions open at once, both generating their own html help
> files. I had thought that I'd seen something about this before, but I
> can't find anything in the list archives... any thoughts?
>
> Vital stats: Kubuntu 9.10
> Python 2.6.4
> R 2.10.1
> Rpy2 2.1.0alpha2
>
> Carson
>
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