Dear list, I use R 1.3.0 on Solaris. Today I realized that the html help search engine does not work at the moment (this means that I always get the search engine page again if I try to specify a search word, and click "search" or one of the prespecified topics), presumably since the latest netscape update. Do you have an idea what can be wrong? Perhaps this must be fixed not by the R help but by our system administrator, but... Why is the alphabetical command index of the html help system removed? If I had this index now, I could work around the search engine. This is not the only case in which I prefer the index to the engine!! Furthermore I do no longer find an online documentation on the R project website. Haven't I searched good enough? If I have, please note that there is somebody out there who would really like to get back these vanished documentation items. (I have the feeling that these topics are not for the first time on the list but I was not able to find it in the 2001 archive.) Best, Christian *********************************************************************** Christian Hennig University of Hamburg, Faculty of Mathematics - SPST/ZMS (Schwerpunkt Mathematische Statistik und Stochastische Prozesse, Zentrum fuer Modellierung und Simulation) Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany Tel: x40/42838 4907, privat x40/631 62 79 hennig at math.uni-hamburg.de, http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hennig/ ####################################################################### ich empfehle www.boag.de -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Christian Hennig wrote:> > Why is the alphabetical command index of the html help system removed? > If I had this index now, I could work around the search engine. This is > not the only case in which I prefer the index to the engine!!There is a separate alphabetical index for each package, including base. There isn't an overall index, but it's usually fairly easy to guess which package is relevant. Look under "Packages".> Furthermore I do no longer find an online documentation on the R project > website.The help pages are still there (and the search engine seems to work). Go to http://www.r-project.org and select "Help Pages" -thomas Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
I've experienced the same problem with R 1.3.0 on Windows 98. Adam Gehr Christian Hennig wrote:> > Dear list, > > I use R 1.3.0 on Solaris. Today I realized that the html help search > engine does not work at the moment (this means that I always get > the search engine page again if I try to specify a search word, and > click "search" or one of the prespecified topics), presumably since the > latest netscape update. > > Do you have an idea what can be wrong? Perhaps this must be fixed not by > the R help but by our system administrator, but... > > Why is the alphabetical command index of the html help system removed? > If I had this index now, I could work around the search engine. This is > not the only case in which I prefer the index to the engine!! > > Furthermore I do no longer find an online documentation on the R project > website. > > Haven't I searched good enough? > > If I have, please note that there is somebody out there who would really like > to get back these vanished documentation items. > > (I have the feeling that these topics are not for the first time on the list > but I was not able to find it in the 2001 archive.) > > Best, > Christian > > *********************************************************************** > Christian Hennig > University of Hamburg, Faculty of Mathematics - SPST/ZMS > (Schwerpunkt Mathematische Statistik und Stochastische Prozesse, > Zentrum fuer Modellierung und Simulation) > Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany > Tel: x40/42838 4907, privat x40/631 62 79 > hennig at math.uni-hamburg.de, http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hennig/ > ####################################################################### > ich empfehle www.boag.de > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Since there appear to be a few people interested in the HTML command index, as far as I know, it is written in Java and if you don't have Java turned on in Netscape, it doesn't work. That was the reason I wrote the Tcl/Tk alternative based on "grep". Jim -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._