Breitbach, Nils
2009-Mar-30 11:55 UTC
[R] Wrong path to user defined library for the R Help Files
Dear R-Community, since I work on a PC at the University I have not the necessary rights for all devices and therefore my library is located on a net device. The installation process worked and everything is right apart from one little thing - the help files. When I try to search with the function "?helptopic" I allways get an URL error. The problem is obvious from the error message because it gives the path where R tries to find the help files. R mixes two paths in the way that it uses the default path of the home directiory followed by my user defined path given via .libPaths. How can I give R the information about the right path without using the default path and mix both up when searching the help files. Can I simply add a line in the Rprofile.site file? I do not know if this is a problem, but my personal working directory is diffrend from my personal library path? Thanks in advance ... Cheers, Nils
Uwe Ligges
2009-Apr-02 10:19 UTC
[R] Wrong path to user defined library for the R Help Files
Breitbach, Nils wrote:> Dear R-Community, > > since I work on a PC at the University I have not the necessary rights for all devices and therefore my library is located on a net device. The installation process worked and everything is right apart from one little thing - the help files. When I try to search with the function "?helptopic" I allways get an URL error. The problem is obvious from the error message because it gives the path where R tries to find the help files. R mixes two paths in the way that it uses the default path of the home directiory followed by my user defined path given via .libPaths. How can I give R the information about the right path without using the default path and mix both up when searching the help files. Can I simply add a line in the Rprofile.site file? > > I do not know if this is a problem, but my personal working directory is diffrend from my personal library path? > > Thanks in advance ...Can you give an example what the directories are and how R mixes up the PATH after you have asked for help? Please tell us as much as possible about the setup, where the package lives and what exactly happened. Uwe Ligges> Cheers, > > Nils > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.