Full_Name: Anton Zgonc
Version: 1.8.1
OS: Linux RH 9.0
Submission from: (NULL) (193.2.208.9)
The SearchEngine, accessible through generated documentation by help.start()
like:
file:/tmp/Rtmp2085/.R/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html
or on WWW:
http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html
works only in Netscape 4.7x. It fails e.g. with Mozilla 1.3, 1.6 and IE 6.0.
I solved the problem by installing Netscape 4.76 and invoking help by
> help.start(browser="netscape4")
where netscape4 is the executable of Netscape 4.76, included in $PATH.
I am sorry, but this is just not true. Please search the R-help archives for lots of comments about people having problems and others reporting success with e.g. Mozilla 1.3 and 1.6. The problems are not to do with R but to do with the Java or JavaScript installation or settings. (I am currently only able to get this to work with the latest-but-one version of Sun's JVM on RH8.0/9/FC1.) I am puzzled by your reference to IE 6.0: does that run under RH9 (there is no 9.0, as far as we know), and if so where did you get it from? The search engine runs in IE 6.0 under Windows if a JVM is installed. On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 tone.zgonc@rzs-hm.si wrote:> Full_Name: Anton Zgonc > Version: 1.8.1 > OS: Linux RH 9.0 > Submission from: (NULL) (193.2.208.9) > > > The SearchEngine, accessible through generated documentation by help.start() > like: > > file:/tmp/Rtmp2085/.R/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html > > or on WWW: > > http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html > > works only in Netscape 4.7x. It fails e.g. with Mozilla 1.3, 1.6 and IE 6.0. > > I solved the problem by installing Netscape 4.76 and invoking help by > > > help.start(browser="netscape4") > > where netscape4 is the executable of Netscape 4.76, included in $PATH.-- 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
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Anton Zgonc wrote:> > > I am sorry, but this is just not true. Please search the R-help archives > > for lots of comments about people having problems and others reporting > > success with e.g. Mozilla 1.3 and 1.6. The problems are not to do with R > > but to do with the Java or JavaScript installation or settings. (I am > > currently only able to get this to work with the latest-but-one version of > > Sun's JVM on RH8.0/9/FC1.) > > Appology. I talked to my coworkers amd it seems that the built-in JAVA > engine in Mozilla/Netscape is relevant. Namely, SearchEngine works on > some Mozilla 1.3 or higher versions on various RH Linuxes in our Agency, > but doesn not on others, enev with the same versions of Mozilla. I > couldn't figure out why. It helped me to install Netscape 4.7.There is no `built-in Java engine' in Mozilla/Netscape (>=6). You have to install it and configure it correctly and there are lots of Linux distros with this not done correctly, as well as version incompatibilities. So the likely story is that some Linux machines don't have Java installed or configured.> > I am puzzled by your reference to IE 6.0: > > I forgot to tell - it was on Windows XP. As far as I know IE has been > ported to some commercial Unixes (HP, Sun) in the past. I don't know > about the present Unix ports. > > Regards, > Anton > > > -- > Anton Zgonc <anton.zgonc@gov.si> > > Agencija za okolje RS Environmental Agency of Slovenia > Vojkova 1b, 1001 Ljubljana Vojkova 1b, SI-1001 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA > > tel.: 01 4784094 04 5876011 tel.: +386 1 478 40 94 > GSM: 031 655 172 GSM.: +386 31 655 172 > >-- 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