I have R 2.8.0 installed on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to run fine, except for the html help interface. I get help OK when doing ?mean on the command line, for example, but when I do help.start() and try to get help for mean it gives me an error message: Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/RtmpwVDJYQ/.R/library/base/html/mean.html or in a new session Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/RtmpJklKkT/.R/library/base/html/mean.html. After invoking the above ?mean again on the command line it also produces an error message> ?meanError in print.help_files_with_topic("/usr/lib/R/library/base/html/mean.html") : No HTML help for 'mean' is available: corresponding file is missing The directory /usr/lib/R/library/base/html appears to be completely empty. Can someone help me fix this problem? Did I miss something during the installation of? By the way, the same problem occurred during an earlier R 2.6.2 version. Fritz Scholz
Fritz, Do you have the r-base-html package installed? That package contains the html help files. Michael Fritz Scholz wrote:> I have R 2.8.0 installed on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to run fine, > except for the html help interface. > > I get help OK when doing ?mean on the command line, for example, > but when I do help.start() and try to get help for mean it gives me > an error message: > Firefox can't find the file > at /tmp/RtmpwVDJYQ/.R/library/base/html/mean.html > > or in a new session > > Firefox can't find the file > at /tmp/RtmpJklKkT/.R/library/base/html/mean.html. > > > After invoking the above ?mean again on the command line > it also produces an error message > >> ?mean > Error in > print.help_files_with_topic("/usr/lib/R/library/base/html/mean.html") : > No HTML help for 'mean' is available: > corresponding file is missing > > > The directory /usr/lib/R/library/base/html > appears to be completely empty. > > Can someone help me fix this problem? Did I miss something > during the installation of? By the way, the same problem > occurred during an earlier R 2.6.2 version. > > Fritz Scholz > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian-- Dr. Michael A. Rutter School of Science Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Station Road Erie, PA 16563 http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
On 28 October 2008 at 10:28, Fritz Scholz wrote:
| I have R 2.8.0 installed on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to run fine,
| except for the html help interface.
|
| I get help OK when doing ?mean on the command line, for example,
| but when I do help.start() and try to get help for mean it gives me
| an error message:
| Firefox can't find the file
| at /tmp/RtmpwVDJYQ/.R/library/base/html/mean.html
|
| or in a new session
|
| Firefox can't find the file
| at /tmp/RtmpJklKkT/.R/library/base/html/mean.html.
|
|
| After invoking the above ?mean again on the command line
| it also produces an error message
|
| > ?mean
| Error in
|
print.help_files_with_topic("/usr/lib/R/library/base/html/mean.html")
:
| No HTML help for 'mean' is available:
| corresponding file is missing
|
|
| The directory /usr/lib/R/library/base/html
| appears to be completely empty.
|
| Can someone help me fix this problem? Did I miss something
| during the installation of? By the way, the same problem
| occurred during an earlier R 2.6.2 version.
I'd conjecture that you need
sudo apt-get install r-base-html
and you may want r-doc-html for the manuals while you're at it.
Dirk
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