I run R on MS Windows. In R2.9.0dev, I type ?base to get "R help for package base" to open. I then select ".First" from the list of contents, getting a page headed: "Initialization at Start of an R Session". About half way down there is a sentence: The command-line flag --vanilla implies --no-site-file, --no-init-file, --no-restore and --no-environ. Under Windows, it also implies --no-Rconsole, which prevents loading the ?Rconsole? file. The last occurrence of the word Rconsole is in blue text and underlined, a link. On clicking on this link, I get a page headed "This program cannot display the webpage" with advice on "Most likely causes:" and "What you can try". Other links work satisfactorily on that page. My internet connection is working. I presume there is a problem with this Rconsole link. > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-13 r48127) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base > cheers, Keith =======================Keith Satterley Bioinformatics Division The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
On 16/03/2009 11:44 PM, Keith Satterley wrote:> I run R on MS Windows. In R2.9.0dev, I type ?base to get "R help for package > base" to open. I then select ".First" from the list of contents, getting a page > headed: "Initialization at Start of an R Session". About half way down there is > a sentence:Thanks for the report. I can reproduce this problem with CHM help, but not HTML help. I'll investigate, but it might be a limitation of the format. (It's not new in R2.9.0, it is present in 2.8.1 as well.) Duncan Murdoch> > The command-line flag --vanilla implies --no-site-file, --no-init-file, > --no-restore and --no-environ. Under Windows, it also implies --no-Rconsole, > which prevents loading the ?Rconsole? file. > > The last occurrence of the word Rconsole is in blue text and underlined, a link. > On clicking on this link, I get a page headed "This program cannot display the > webpage" with advice on "Most likely causes:" and "What you can try". > > Other links work satisfactorily on that page. My internet connection is working. > > I presume there is a problem with this Rconsole link. > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-13 r48127) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base > > > > cheers, > > Keith > > =======================> Keith Satterley > Bioinformatics Division > The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research > Parkville, Melbourne, > Victoria, Australia > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
On 16/03/2009 11:44 PM, Keith Satterley wrote:> I run R on MS Windows. In R2.9.0dev, I type ?base to get "R help for package > base" to open. I then select ".First" from the list of contents, getting a page > headed: "Initialization at Start of an R Session". About half way down there is > a sentence: > > The command-line flag --vanilla implies --no-site-file, --no-init-file, > --no-restore and --no-environ. Under Windows, it also implies --no-Rconsole, > which prevents loading the ?Rconsole? file. > > The last occurrence of the word Rconsole is in blue text and underlined, a link. > On clicking on this link, I get a page headed "This program cannot display the > webpage" with advice on "Most likely causes:" and "What you can try". > > Other links work satisfactorily on that page. My internet connection is working. > > I presume there is a problem with this Rconsole link.After a little looking, this turns out to be a limitation of the CHM help file production. With other formats that support links you don't need to specify which package a link goes to, but with CHM help, you do. Since Rconsole is documented in the utils package, this link from base failed in that format. I've fixed other external links to that particular topic, but I imagine there are lots of other cross-package links that will still fail in CHM files. Since we will likely replace the file conversion system soon, and since CHM files are no longer supported by Microsoft, I am not planning to try to fix the old conversion code. If the fix was easy, it would have been in place from the beginning. But if someone else wants to put together a patch (to share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm), I'll test it. So for now I'd recommend using HTML help rather than CHM help. Duncan Murdoch> > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-13 r48127) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base > > > > cheers, > > Keith > > =======================> Keith Satterley > Bioinformatics Division > The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research > Parkville, Melbourne, > Victoria, Australia > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel