[R] Cannot Launch R Help Files under Window 8.1

[Jack H. Pincus]

Thanks Gabor. I'll try that.

Jack

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> On May 26, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Jack H. Pincus
> <jack.pincus at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Thanks for your suggestions.  I did some further digging and found the problem was more subtle. I use Dashlane, a password management program, which requires IE to run in protected mode under Win 8. Disabling protected mode solved the problem with R help.
>> 
>> Jack
> 
> If you don't want to disable IE protected mode you could install
> firefox, say, without making it the default browser and then set the
> browser option in R like this:
> 
>    options(browser = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe")