I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a
bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able
to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser.
Then in Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu
to open HTML Help, and choose "Search Engine and Keywords".
Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on "Search".
Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but
eventually I get a result, starting out
Search Results
The search string was "plot"
base-defunct
Defunct Functions in Base Package
expression
Unevaluated Expressions
However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now
listed as
file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/index.html
so the links don't work: they are entered as
"../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html", etc. in the source,
and
the expect the current directory to be
file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/search/
If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are
fine, so this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that
was masked before.
Any suggestions of workarounds?
Duncan Murdoch
Hmm, from NEWS
o help.search() has new argument 'searchEngine' to go
directly to the search form: this is needed by users of
Firefox 3 to workaround a bug in interpreting the search
results pages.
and CHANGES (2.7.2)
o Rgui has a new menu item 'Html search page' on the Help menu,
which goes directly to the HTML search form. This is needed
by users of Firefox 3, which generates incorrect links in
search results when the page is accessed via the 'Html help'
menu item (or via help.start()).
It is a Firefox bug, documented in the R-admin manual.
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a bug
a
> colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able to
> reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser. Then in
> Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu to open
HTML
> Help, and choose "Search Engine and Keywords".
>
> Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on "Search".
>
> Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but eventually
I
> get a result, starting out
>
> Search Results
> The search string was "plot"
>
> base-defunct
> Defunct Functions in Base Package
> expression
> Unevaluated Expressions
>
>
> However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now
listed
> as
>
> file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/index.html
>
> so the links don't work: they are entered as
> "../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html", etc. in the
source, and the
> expect the current directory to be
>
> file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/search/
>
> If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are fine,
so
> this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that was masked
> before.
>
> Any suggestions of workarounds?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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on 01/09/2009 10:59 AM Duncan Murdoch wrote:> I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a > bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able > to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser. > Then in Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu > to open HTML Help, and choose "Search Engine and Keywords". > > Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on "Search". > > Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but > eventually I get a result, starting out > > Search Results > The search string was "plot" > > base-defunct > Defunct Functions in Base Package > expression > Unevaluated Expressions > > > However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now > listed as > > file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/index.html > > so the links don't work: they are entered as > "../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html", etc. in the source, and > the expect the current directory to be > > file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/search/ > > If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are > fine, so this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that > was masked before. > > Any suggestions of workarounds? > > Duncan MurdochDuncan, It is covered in R-Admin: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Enabling-search-in-HTML-help "There is a known issue with Firefox 3 (and 3.0.1). The links in the results page may point to the wrong directory level. This is a bug in the way Firefox is interpreting relative URLs, and can be circumvented by opening the HTML search page (.../doc/html/SearchEngine.html) directly rather than from .../doc/html/index.html as shown by help.start()." and in ?help.start in the Note: Note to users of Firefox 3: the search results have links that are resolved incorrectly by that browser if starting from the normal HTML index page. The workaround is to start with help.start(searchEngine = TRUE) HTH, Marc Schwartz
On 1/9/2009 11:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:> I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a > bug a colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able > to reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser. > Then in Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu > to open HTML Help, and choose "Search Engine and Keywords". > > Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on "Search". > > Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but > eventually I get a result, starting out > > Search Results > The search string was "plot" > > base-defunct > Defunct Functions in Base Package > expression > Unevaluated Expressions > > > However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now > listed as > > file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/index.html > > so the links don't work: they are entered as > "../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html", etc. in the source, and > the expect the current directory to be > > file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/search/ > > If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are > fine, so this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that > was masked before. > > Any suggestions of workarounds?As Brian and Marc pointed out, this is a Firefox 3.0 bug. As it turns out, it was repaired in November, but not approved for release in 3.0.5 or 3.0.6 (due this month??). I've been told it will make it into 3.0.7. For more on this, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445004 Duncan Murdoch