Full_Name: James MacKinnon Version: Version 1.0.0 OS: Debian 2.1 Submission from: (NULL) (24.141.113.138) I am a novice at R, so I am not totally sure that this is a bug, but I think it must be. When I type help.start() or ?help, Netscape starts up, as it should, but it displays my normal home page, not any help for R. The relevant documents exist in /usr/lib/R/doc/html, but Netscape does not seem to know about them when it is started from within R. I cannot figure out how to tell Netscape about them. I simply installed the Debian package from one of the R websites. The file I used is r-base_1.0.0-1_i386.deb. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
jgm@qed.econ.queensu.ca writes:> Full_Name: James MacKinnon > Version: Version 1.0.0 > OS: Debian 2.1 > Submission from: (NULL) (24.141.113.138) > > > I am a novice at R, so I am not totally sure that this is a bug, but > I think it must be. When I type help.start() or ?help, Netscape > starts up, as it should, but it displays my normal home page, not > any help for R. The relevant documents exist in /usr/lib/R/doc/html, > but Netscape does not seem to know about them when it is started > from within R. I cannot figure out how to tell Netscape about them. > > I simply installed the Debian package from one of the R > websites. The file I used is r-base_1.0.0-1_i386.deb.Hello James, When you use help.start it is supposed to create and populate a directory ~/.R. Within there there should be an html directory and links to several of the html files in /usr/lib/R/doc/html. Could you check that this directory exists? My version (under Debian 2.2 and using an experimental r-base_1.0.1-0) looks like /u9/bates/.R/doc/html: total 19 drwxrwxr-x 3 bates bates 1024 Mar 22 09:05 . drwxrwxr-x 3 bates bates 1024 Mar 22 09:05 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 25 Mar 22 09:05 R.css -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/R.css lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 30 Mar 22 09:05 about.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/about.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 28 Mar 22 09:05 faq.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/faq.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 33 Mar 22 09:05 function.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 30 Mar 22 09:05 index.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 28 Mar 22 09:05 left.jpg -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/left.jpg lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 28 Mar 22 09:05 logo.jpg -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/logo.jpg lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 30 Mar 22 09:05 logosm.jpg -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/logosm.jpg lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 38 Mar 22 09:05 packages-foot.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/packages-foot.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 38 Mar 22 09:05 packages-head.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/packages-head.html -rw-r--r-- 1 bates bates 14580 Mar 22 09:05 packages.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 33 Mar 22 09:05 resource.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/resource.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 29 Mar 22 09:05 right.jpg -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/right.jpg drwxrwxr-x 2 bates bates 1024 Mar 22 09:05 search lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 33 Mar 22 09:05 template.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/template.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 31 Mar 22 09:05 thanks.html -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/thanks.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bates bates 26 Mar 22 09:05 up.jpg -> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/up.jpg BTW, my daughter, who is a student at Queen's, tells me that you are having wonderful weather right now. She was down to the lakefront to do some reading yesterday. -- Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Thanks for the very speedy response. I just tried again, but this time on my office machine, and I am extremely embarrassed to report that everything seems to work fine! The only problem is that the headings under "Data Analysis with R" are not actually links, but no doubt that is because they are not (yet) supposed to be. It seems to be only on my home machine, where I was trying to experiment with R last night, that there is a problem. I think the problem must have something to do with the way in which netscape is installed on the two machines. "which netscape" yields different results on the two of them. I am pretty sure I can solve the problem now. I presume that R is passing a command like "netscape URL" to the operating system, and I am pretty sure that "URL" is not getting through on my home machine because it is finding a script instead of the real executable. I think I just need to change the script to pass its arguments to netscape. Unfortunately, I cannot check the fix while I am at the office. Incidentally, is there some way I can change the command that R is issuing? That way, I could point it directly to a particular executable (I have several netscapes). Also, I would like to experiment with having it fire up lynx in an xterm rather than netscape, if that is possible. On 22 Mar 2000, Douglas Bates wrote:> When you use help.start it is supposed to create and populate a > directory ~/.R. Within there there should be an html directory and > links to several of the html files in /usr/lib/R/doc/html.Yes, these directories are present on both machines, and the contents seem to be fine. I think R itself is working fine.> BTW, my daughter, who is a student at Queen's, tells me that you are > having wonderful weather right now. She was down to the lakefront to > do some reading yesterday.Incredible weather, actually. It is bright and sunny and warm enough that a jacket really isn't needed. I am very sorry to have bothered you. Should I do something to close the bug report? Cheers, James. James G. MacKinnon Department of Economics phone: 613 533-2293 Queen's University Fax: 613 533-2257 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Email: jgm@qed.econ.queensu.ca K7L 3N6 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._