Hi, when calling help.start() I get the message "> sh: firefox: command not found" and the help system is inaccessible (which is an absolute nuisance, but bypassable under http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/) I have no idea what is broken in my system and I didn'n find any pointer in the archives(my search skills may be deficient..) My sessionInfo(): R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] C attached base packages: [1] tools tcltk stats4 splines parallel grid datasets [8] compiler graphics grDevices stats utils methods base other attached packages: [1] survival_2.36-10 spatial_7.3-3 rpart_3.1-50 nnet_7.3-1 [5] nlme_3.1-102 mgcv_1.7-9 foreign_0.8-46 codetools_0.2-8 [9] cluster_1.14.1 class_7.3-3 boot_1.3-3 Matrix_1.0-1 [13] MASS_7.3-16 KernSmooth_2.23-6 cwhmisc_3.0 lattice_0.20-0 Warning message: 'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible IS THIS ESSENTIAL ??>I would appreciate help very much Christian -- Christian W. Hoffmann, Rigiblickstrasse 15 b, CH-8915Hausen am Albis, Switzerland, Tel +41-44-7640853, c-w.hoffmann at sunrise.ch www.wsl.ch/personal_homepages/hoffmann/
On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Christian Hoffmann wrote:> Hi, when calling help.start() I get the message > > "> sh: firefox: command not found" > > and the help system is inaccessible (which is an absolute nuisance, but bypassable under http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/) > > I have no idea what is broken in my system and I didn'n find any pointer in the archives(my search skills may be deficient..) > > My sessionInfo(): > > R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] C > > attached base packages: > [1] tools tcltk stats4 splines parallel grid datasets > [8] compiler graphics grDevices stats utils methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] survival_2.36-10 spatial_7.3-3 rpart_3.1-50 nnet_7.3-1 > [5] nlme_3.1-102 mgcv_1.7-9 foreign_0.8-46 codetools_0.2-8 > [9] cluster_1.14.1 class_7.3-3 boot_1.3-3 Matrix_1.0-1 > [13] MASS_7.3-16 KernSmooth_2.23-6 cwhmisc_3.0 lattice_0.20-0 > Warning message: > 'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible IS THIS ESSENTIAL ?? >> > > I would appreciate help very much > > ChristianCheck to see what: options()$browser shows on your system. See ?options. On OSX the default is:> options()$browser[1] "/usr/bin/open" which should open up your system default browser. It may be that you have changed the default value of that option in ~/.Rprofile to open firefox instead or perhaps you copied the ~/.Rprofile from another system with the value modified? If you want Firefox to open and that is not your default browser, then the full path should be something like: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox HTH, Marc Schwartz