[Rd] crash after help(..., chmhelp=TRUE) (PR#562)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I tried to use compiled html on the following system:
> NT4.0 SP6 (with _old_ IE3), R-1.0.1.
> 
> R > help(ls, chmhelp=TRUE)
> ... but nothing happens ...
> 
> >From the R Readme:
>    "To make use of this you will need a recent version of 
>    Windows or IE4 or later installed, or use the updater hhupd.exe 
>    on CRAN at bin/windows/windows-NT/etc."
> 
> So I used the updater 'hhupd.exe'. After that (and rebooting, ...):
> 
> R > help(ls, chmhelp=TRUE)
> 
> Here R crashes (Dr. Watson)....
> 
> The same happens on another machine with IE3 _and_ Netscape 4.73.
> After installing IE5 everything works fine.

Looks like a MicroSoft versioning problem....  With NT4.0Sp5 the updater
works. I doubt if is needed at all for NT4.0Sp6, which is `a recent version
of Windows', surely.

Not an R bug, surely?

> 
> Regards, 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> --please do not edit the information below--
> 
> Version:
>  platform = Windows
>  arch = x86
>  os = Win32
>  system = x86, Win32
>  status = 
>  major = 1
>  minor = 0.1
>  year = 2000
>  month = April
>  day = 14
>  language = R
> 
> Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6
> 
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base
> 
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