A quick solution is to use<div><br></div><div>_=%R print(?plot)</div><div><br></div><div>which should just print the help file. The R magic only displays </div><div>R's stdout, while in the terminal ?plot redirects to either an html browser or something like less.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Perhaps a magic named something like</div><div><br></div><div>%Rhelp plot</div><div><br></div><div>could put this into ipython's help system.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Satrajit Ghosh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satra@mit.edu" target="_blank">satra@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Ah, I see. Have a look at this bit of the rpy2 docs - it should be</div>
easy to put something together based on that:<br>
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<a href="http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-2.2/html/introduction.html#getting-help" target="_blank">http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-2.2/html/introduction.html#getting-help</a><br>
<div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>thanks thomas. i'll try to take a look when i get a breather.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>satra </div>
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