Currently I have set options(help_type="text")
and getOption("help_type")
returns "text"
. Not sure why but R still opens a new browser window or tab when I type ?par
in the inferior ESS (iESS) buffer. If I explicitly evaluate help(par,help_type="text")
, the contents of the help page is printed in the iESS buffer. I thought there was a way to have the contents open in a its own separate Emacs buffer -- was I mistaken?
If (as we discovered in the comments) you set inferior-ess-help-command to "utils::help(\"%s\")\n", then the problem was resolved.
It appeared to have been caused by another inferior-ess-help-command in the configuration file.
Its always a good idea to start emacs with the -nw options if you experience weird problems like this.
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