From hkawakat at gmail.com  Wed Feb 15 14:03:18 2012
From: hkawakat at gmail.com (hkawakat at gmail.com)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:03:18 +0000
Subject: [Rd] help.search() in html?
Message-ID: <20120215130318.GA13405@euler.dcu.ie>

Hi,

I have options(help_type="html") in my .Rprofile and when I type
?foo, the man page appears as a new tab in my web browser (which is
already running). Fine. However, when I type ??foo, rather than the
results appearing in a new tab, a new instance of the web browser is
spawned with the default homepage displayed. Same with
help.search("foo"). Am I the only one seeing this? Is there some
setting/option that I am missing?
(At the moment, I bring up a man page via ?foo and then manually
follow the <Index> link at the bottom of the page to go up to the
search engine page.) R --vanilla shows the results of ??foo in the
terminal window as expected.

I am running
> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2012-02-13 r58337)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.0

h.
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