R help - Jun 2004 - Html help does not work in Mac OSX 10.3.4

I recently upgraded from R 1.8 to 1.9. I removed 1.8 following the
instructions. Html help has not worked since. When htmlhelp="TRUE" the
help.start() command results in the "patience" message and nothing
else
happens. I am using mac osx 10.3.4. Help worked fine when I was using R 1.8.

I need help help ;-] Thanks!
-- 
Emilio A. Laca     
One Shields Avenue, 2306 PES Building
Agronomy and Range Science                    ealaca at ucdavis.edu
University of California                      fax: (530) 752-4361
Davis, California  95616                            (530) 754-4083

Hello:

You are damn right! I haven't noticed because I rarely use the html help. 
I will be working on. I'll let you know.

Regards.




On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Emilio A. Laca wrote:
> I recently upgraded from R 1.8 to 1.9. I removed 1.8 following the
> instructions. Html help has not worked since. When
htmlhelp="TRUE" the
> help.start() command results in the "patience" message and
nothing else
> happens. I am using mac osx 10.3.4. Help worked fine when I was using R
1.8.
> 
> I need help help ;-] Thanks!
> 
-- 
Ulises M. Alvarez
LAB. DE ONDAS DE CHOQUE
FISICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGIA AVANZADA
UNAM
umalvarez at fata.unam.mx

Hello!

If I launch R from a console I get:


R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 1.9.0  (2004-04-12), ISBN 3-900051-00-3
> help.start()
Making links in per-session dir ...
If /usr/bin/open is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you
    must switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...
> dyld: /usr/bin/open version mismatch for library: 
/usr/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib (compatibility version of user: 9.0.0 
greater than library's version: 8.0.0)


This was with the default (browser="/usr/bin/open").

I also tried with:
> options(bowser="/usr/bin/open -a /Applications/firefox.app")
> help.start()
Making links in per-session dir ...
If /usr/bin/open is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you
    must switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...
> dyld: /usr/bin/open version mismatch for library: 
/usr/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib (compatibility version of user: 9.0.0 
greater than library's version: 8.0.0)
dyld: /usr/bin/open version mismatch for library: 
/usr/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib (compatibility version of user: 9.0.0 
greater than library's version: 8.0.0)


After that, I check my fink installation:

.~/$ fink -V
Package manager version: 0.20.2
Distribution version: 0.7.0.cvs 

And...

.~/fink list libxml

 i   libxml2            2.6.7-1        XML parsing library, version 2
 i   libxml2-bin        2.6.7-1        XML parsing library, version 2
 i   libxml2-shlibs     2.6.7-1        XML parsing library, version 2
 

So far, no upgrades are available in fink's repositories. Perhaps Stefano
could help us. So, I'm submitting a copy of this mail. I don't know if 
this qualify as a bug, but I'm including R-bugs. I'll be not able to
work
on this full-time till Saturday. 

Regards.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Emilio A. Laca wrote:
> I recently upgraded from R 1.8 to 1.9. I removed 1.8 following the
> instructions. Html help has not worked since. When
htmlhelp="TRUE" the
> help.start() command results in the "patience" message and
nothing else
> happens. I am using mac osx 10.3.4. Help worked fine when I was using R 
1.8.
> 
> I need help help ;-] Thanks!
> 
-- 
Ulises M. Alvarez
LAB. DE ONDAS DE CHOQUE
FISICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGIA AVANZADA
UNAM
umalvarez at fata.unam.mx