R SIG Debian - Jun 2008 - Ubuntu html help pages missing

I don't see any way to install the html help pages for R version 2.7.x 
or 2.6.2 on Ubuntu (Hardy)  without rebuilding.  I don't use html 
myself, but there is a problem when someone else does:

?lm  ## help works
help.start()   ## fires up browser
?lm  ## no longer works becuase it is looking for (missing) html help 
pages to show in browser

I searched for r-doc packages but could not find anything.  Am I 
overlooking anything?

-Naras

Hi Naras,

On 19 June 2008 at 14:14, Balasubramanian Narasimhan wrote:
| I don't see any way to install the html help pages for R version 2.7.x 
| or 2.6.2 on Ubuntu (Hardy)  without rebuilding.  I don't use html 
| myself, but there is a problem when someone else does:
| 
| ?lm  ## help works
| help.start()   ## fires up browser
| ?lm  ## no longer works becuase it is looking for (missing) html help 
| pages to show in browser
| 
| I searched for r-doc packages but could not find anything.  Am I 
| overlooking anything?

Quite possibly. These three contain the manuals [1]:

edd at ron:~$ wajig search r-doc- | grep "^r-doc"
r-doc-html - GNU R html manuals for statistical computing system
r-doc-info - GNU R info manuals statistical computing system
r-doc-pdf - GNU R pdf manuals for statistical computing system

whereas these two contain the extra docs from R's 'base' section.
edd at ron:~$ wajig search r-base- | grep doc
r-base-html - GNU R html docs for statistical computing system functions
r-base-latex - GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical computing system functions

Installing just 'r-base' should give you everything just like, say, R on
'doze.  Seems like you found the rope to hang yourself: r-base-core  ;-)

Say Hi to Russ Albery for me. I hear they provide R on Ubuntu centrally for
you guys now which is tres cool.

Dirk

[1] wajig is a very useful  wrapper around dpkg, apt-*, aptitude, dselect, ... 
Highly recommended. It's author even turned from Python to R.

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