Dear R experts, I installed R-1.7.1 on Linux (Red Hat 9.0) starting from R-1.7.1.tgz without a problem. Then I fired up R and tried things and found that help.start( ) does not work. I downloaded Sun Java j2re1.4.2, installed that and re-installed R-1.7.1 from scratch. I tried help.start( ) again and the browser (Mozilla 1.2.1) crashed. I read about copying libjavaplugin_oji.so into mozilla/plugins and installed R-1.7.1 (again from scratch). Mozilla still crashed. Can you tell me how to make help.start( ) work in R-1.7.1? Thank you Ming Chow __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now!
Ming wrote:> Dear R experts, > > I installed R-1.7.1 on Linux (Red Hat 9.0) starting from R-1.7.1.tgz without a problem. Then I fired up R and tried things and found that help.start( ) does not work. I downloaded Sun Java j2re1.4.2, installed that and re-installed R-1.7.1 from scratch. I tried help.start( ) again and the browser (Mozilla 1.2.1) crashed. > > I read about copying libjavaplugin_oji.so into mozilla/plugins and installed R-1.7.1 (again from scratch). Mozilla still crashed. Can you tell me how to make help.start( ) work in R-1.7.1? >It doesn't help much, but it works fine on my SuSE 8.2 box, using R-1.7.1 (patched) and Mozlla 1.2.1. I've also used Konqueror (the KDE browser/file manager) using help.start(browser="konqueror"). Have you tried that (or Galleon, or Opera, or ...)? Cheers Jason -- Indigo Industrial Controls Ltd. 64-21-343-545 jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:41, Ming wrote:> Dear R experts, > > I installed R-1.7.1 on Linux (Red Hat 9.0) starting from R-1.7.1.tgz > without a problem. Then I fired up R and tried things and found that > help.start( ) does not work. I downloaded Sun Java j2re1.4.2, > installed that and re-installed R-1.7.1 from scratch. I tried > help.start( ) again and the browser (Mozilla 1.2.1) crashed. > > I read about copying libjavaplugin_oji.so into mozilla/plugins and > installed R-1.7.1 (again from scratch). Mozilla still crashed. Can > you tell me how to make help.start( ) work in R-1.7.1? > > Thank you > > Ming ChowYou don't want to copy the file itself into the plug-in directory, but create a 'symlink' to the file. One of the things that you should consider (seriously) doing, is to upgrade your mozilla version to 1.4. There have been notable (and beneficial) updates to the browser since 1.2.x. You will need to open a console window, su to root and change into the mozilla/plugins folder, which should be something like: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins Of course, adjust the 'mozilla-1.x' component to your actual path. In that folder, in the console window as root, type: ln -s /usr/path-to-java/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so That will create the symlink for the java plug-in. Adjust the 'path-to-java' above for your installation of java. Be sure that you use the 'ns610-gcc32' path and not the others that may be present. This is a version of the plugin that was compiled with the version of gcc that comes with RH 9. Once you have created the symlink, then try help.start() in R. If things are functioning properly and the initial main page comes up, after you click on "Search Engine & Keywords", you should see "Applet SearchEngine started" on the mozilla status line. HTH, Marc Schwartz
I think the Mozilla plugin site explicitly says that you cannot copy the Java plugin into the Mozilla plugin directory. You have to make a symbolic link to it in the plugin directory. Please try that. Jason Turner <jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz> Sent by: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 09/03/2003 07:32 PM To: Ming <mingliz2 at netscape.net> cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] help.start( ) Ming wrote:> Dear R experts, > > I installed R-1.7.1 on Linux (Red Hat 9.0) starting from R-1.7.1.tgzwithout a problem. Then I fired up R and tried things and found that help.start( ) does not work. I downloaded Sun Java j2re1.4.2, installed that and re-installed R-1.7.1 from scratch. I tried help.start( ) again and the browser (Mozilla 1.2.1) crashed.> > I read about copying libjavaplugin_oji.so into mozilla/plugins andinstalled R-1.7.1 (again from scratch). Mozilla still crashed. Can you tell me how to make help.start( ) work in R-1.7.1?>It doesn't help much, but it works fine on my SuSE 8.2 box, using R-1.7.1 (patched) and Mozlla 1.2.1. I've also used Konqueror (the KDE browser/file manager) using help.start(browser="konqueror"). Have you tried that (or Galleon, or Opera, or ...)? Cheers Jason -- Indigo Industrial Controls Ltd. 64-21-343-545 jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.