R help - Oct 1999 - Linking to html help from outside R

Dear R-help-ers

   (Currently running Version 0.65.1 Release (October 07, 1999) on Solaris
     2.6)

  My problem has to do with updates of the R language.  When I install a
new version, I would like to just change one directive, or a soft link to
the current doc/html/ directory, to update a bookmark I have pointing to 
the current R doumentation directory.  I've tried building a soft link:

current_html_link -> /opt/local/R/R-0.65.1/doc/html

and pointing my browser there with:

file:/opt/local/R/current_html_link/index.html

but I then have to redefine the relative path links in
/doc/html/functions.html and /doc/html/packages.html, which breaks the
search mechanism. (doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html)

The goal is to not have to change my bookmarks and links on other pages (I
have an R tutorial page for students) at every update, just to change a
central pointer to the proper html directory.

  Has anyone else run into this problem and found a work around?

  Perhaps a better way to structure the R tree of subdirectories for
multiple versions of R?

Jim

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Jim Robison-Cox <jimrc at gauss.math.montana.edu> writes:
> Dear R-help-ers
> 
>    (Currently running Version 0.65.1 Release (October 07, 1999) on Solaris
>      2.6)
> 
>   My problem has to do with updates of the R language.  When I install a
> new version, I would like to just change one directive, or a soft link to
> the current doc/html/ directory, to update a bookmark I have pointing to 
> the current R doumentation directory.  I've tried building a soft link:
> 
> current_html_link -> /opt/local/R/R-0.65.1/doc/html
> 
> and pointing my browser there with:
> 
> file:/opt/local/R/current_html_link/index.html
> 
> but I then have to redefine the relative path links in
> /doc/html/functions.html and /doc/html/packages.html, which breaks the
> search mechanism. (doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html)
How about current-R -> /opt/local/R/R-0.65.1

and file:/opt/local/current-R/doc/html/index.html

Seems to work for me...

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