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When I use R on Windows (inside Rgui) and type ?table a browser window opens and show me the documentation about table. This work local without internet connection.

When I do this on Debian unstable in R the help text is displayed inside the R console. I want it the windows way here but don't know how to set this up or if this is even possible.

buhtz
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Add this to your ~/.Rprofile file:

options("help_type"="html")

Also see ?utils::help:

help_type: character string: the type of help required. Possible values are ‘"text"’, ‘"html"’ and ‘"pdf"’. Case is ignored, and partial matching is allowed.

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