The message below seems not to have been circulated to R-devel: PR#7279 is from the same person and unreadable in the repository. Presumably both were eliminated by spam filters. R-bugs is not an appropriate place to ask questions (see the FAQ), but html documentation *is* supported and requires makeinfo 4.5, as the NEWS file says. This is the expected result from a missing or ancient version of makeinfo, and there will have a message earlier in that case. Please read through all the configuration information for a message like "you cannot build info versions of the R manuals" Solution: install GNU texinfo 4.7 (or 4.6 or 4.5). Yet another non-bug report .... -------------------------- message pasted from R-bugs ------------------- From: cchriste@aspenresearch.com To: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk Subject: documentation Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:03:31 +0200 (CEST) Full_Name: Chris Christensen Version: 2.0.0 OS: linux Mandrake 9.0 Submission from: (NULL) (158.107.48.254) Building from source creates the following zero length html files: -rw-r--r-- 1 cchrist3 cchrist3 0 Oct 11 10:35 R-data.html -rw-r--r-- 1 cchrist3 cchrist3 0 Oct 11 10:35 R-exts.html -rw-r--r-- 1 cchrist3 cchrist3 0 Oct 11 10:35 R-FAQ.html -rw-r--r-- 1 cchrist3 cchrist3 0 Oct 11 10:35 R-intro.html -rw-r--r-- 1 cchrist3 cchrist3 0 Oct 11 10:35 R-lang.html Is html documentation no longer supported? Source from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/ -- 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 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595