Prof Brian Ripley
2006-Dec-18 12:21 UTC
[R] Window help files on networked drives may not be visible
Now R 2.4.x defaults to CHM help, you may encounter a problem with a fairly recent Windows security patch described in http://www.helpscribble.com/chmnetwork.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358 This may apply if you have R itself or some library on a networked drive or share. Apart from the workarounds described in those URLs, there is an R-specific workaround: delete the pkgname/chtml folders in network-mounted libraries (when R will revert to text help for those packages), or customize the startup and select one of the other help options. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595