R help - Jul 2006 - problem with rdocdir option when installing R2.3.1

Hi,

In the "R documentation and Administration" manual it is said that
"The
configure or make variables |rdocdir| and |rsharedir| can be used to 
install the system-independent doc and share directories to somewhere 
other than |libdir|".

Then I've installed R v2.3.1 on a solaris platform (SunOS 5.9)  with the 
following commands :
 > ./configure --prefix=/somewhere/stats  rdocdir=/elsewhere/html
 > make
 > make install

It works well since documentation files are located in in 
/elsewhere/html but when I use the html browser to compulse the 
documentation, the links doesn't work.
In fact, all HREF balise are like "<a
href="../../library/package/...">"
but the library directory is not installed to "../../library" it is 
installed to "/somewhere/stats/R-2.3.1/library".

Is there a parameter that I've missed ?

Thank you for your help

Christine

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Christine Krahenbuhl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the "R documentation and Administration" manual it is said
that "The
> configure or make variables |rdocdir| and |rsharedir| can be used to
> install the system-independent doc and share directories to somewhere
> other than |libdir|".
And indeed it does so.
> Then I've installed R v2.3.1 on a solaris platform (SunOS 5.9)  with
the
> following commands :
> > ./configure --prefix=/somewhere/stats  rdocdir=/elsewhere/html
> > make
> > make install
>
> It works well since documentation files are located in in
> /elsewhere/html but when I use the html browser to compulse the
What does `compulse' mean, and what exactly did you do?
> documentation, the links doesn't work.
> In fact, all HREF balise are like "<a
href="../../library/package/...">"
> but the library directory is not installed to "../../library" it
is
> installed to "/somewhere/stats/R-2.3.1/library".
>
> Is there a parameter that I've missed ?
You are supposed to use help.start() to view the HTML help pages: it makes 
the requisite links to a session-specific directory.  (This is unrelated 
to your subject line: you use help.start() however you installed R.)

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