In R 0.63 RINSTALL of a package with documentation still appears to clobber R/doc/html/function.html and R/doc/html/packages.html so the main help is no longer available to a user once a package is installed. I know how to work around this for my own purposes, but I hesitate to release a package that would do this to some unsuspecting user. Paul Gilbert -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
What I meant was that
R INSTALL -l rlibs dse
re-writes
${RHOME}/doc/html/function.html
and ${RHOME}/doc/html/packages.html
with the documentation for dse, rather than appending it to those files. I was
led to believe that this was not a local quirk before, and was just point out
that it is still a problem in 0.63. If it really is now a local quirk then
I'll
work on it some more.
>Also, those files are probably not relevant any more:
>help.start sets up links in ${HOME}/.R for this, and updates if needed.
This seems to fix packages.html but not function.html. It appears to write a
new file ${HOME}/.R/packages.html but ${HOME}/.R/function.html is a link to
${RHOME}/doc/html/function.html which has been clobbered by the install.
This mechanism seems to have the implication that packages which are going to be
used by several people should be installed by the owner of R (e.g. R INSTALL
dse). I have been installing to a private library (e.g. R INSTALL -l rlibs
dse) on the assumption that someone other than the R owner might install a
package for several people to use. Is there a preferred way to do this?
(Also, possible a local quirk, help.start() seems to pop open a mail message
which I'm editing and have closed on my desktop.)
Paul Gilbert
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Public reply to private message:> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:04:07 -0500 > From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> > To: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>, R-devel<R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch>> Subject: Re: RINSTALL with doc clobbers function.html > > What I meant was that > R INSTALL -l rlibs dse > > re-writes > ${RHOME}/doc/html/function.html > and ${RHOME}/doc/html/packages.htmlThat fact was not there: I have not tested this case. I do however have libs set in INSTALL to something other than the default, and both files get appended to for me. -- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._