I re-installed R yet one more time (making sure that this time I got R-1.3.1 --- how the ***hell*** did I get R-1.3.0 before? Like, I mean, I just went to the R/CRAN website and downloaded ....). Anyhow, after re-installation, the problem that I was having, i.e. not getting any output whatever help(<topic>,offline=T), disappeared. No idea why it was there in the first place, but. cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._