For R-1.2.3 on a Debian 2.3 (testing) GNU/Linux system I would like to have help.start use Konqueror (the KDE web browser) instead of netscape. I can start it with help.start(browser = "konqueror") but trying to search for terms from the search page does not work. My guess is that I need to configure javascript. The default is not to allow javascript at all. I do not wish to enable javascript globally. Under Settings->Configure Konqueror->Javascript I have set accept for the localhost Host/domain. This does not seem to help. Can anyone give instructions on how I can allow searching without globally enabling javascript? This is important to me because there is a long-standing wishlist bug against the Debian r-base package that I could close if I could use show that Konqueror could be used instead of netscape. -- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> Douglas Bates writes:> For R-1.2.3 on a Debian 2.3 (testing) GNU/Linux system I would like > to have help.start use Konqueror (the KDE web browser) instead of > netscape. I can start it with> help.start(browser = "konqueror")> but trying to search for terms from the search page does not work.> My guess is that I need to configure javascript. The default is not > to allow javascript at all. I do not wish to enable javascript > globally. Under Settings->Configure Konqueror->Javascript I have set > accept for the localhost Host/domain. This does not seem to help.> Can anyone give instructions on how I can allow searching without > globally enabling javascript?> This is important to me because there is a long-standing wishlist bug > against the Debian r-base package that I could close if I could use > show that Konqueror could be used instead of netscape.Hmm ... I raised the issue about help.start() support for browsers other than netscape a few weeks ago. I seem to recall that as neither mozilla (bug) nor konqueror (feature?) can be controlled remotely in the way netscape does, we decided to not pursue this any further. It seems that all you want is getting help.start() to work and use the Java search engine, but what good would this be? The next help() would not be able to display HTML output in the same konqueror windows ... -k -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On 12 Jun 2001, Douglas Bates wrote:> For R-1.2.3 on a Debian 2.3 (testing) GNU/Linux system I would like > to have help.start use Konqueror (the KDE web browser) instead of > netscape. I can start it with > > help.start(browser = "konqueror") > > but trying to search for terms from the search page does not work. > > My guess is that I need to configure javascript. The default is not > to allow javascript at all. I do not wish to enable javascript > globally. Under Settings->Configure Konqueror->Javascript I have set > accept for the localhost Host/domain. This does not seem to help.The R help.start() search uses Java and not Javascript. They are almost nothing to do with each other, and are enabled independently in Netscape. Does konqueror have Java support? If you run help.start using netscape you will see `Starting Java' Brian -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> Does konqueror have Java support?Yes, but even enabling that globally still leaves the R search function busted as I verified earlier on my work box (using KDE 2.1.* under Debian 2.3). Quite a shame because konqueror is my preferred browser. Real pretty with the anti-aliased fonts. -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._