[R] Searching html help in 1.30

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Adam Gehr wrote:

> In a previous post I noted a problem using the html help search in R 1.3
> using Windows 98.  Further experimentation shows that search works fine in
> Internet Explorer, but won't work in Netscape 4.7. When I attempt to
> search in Netscape I just get a blink of the screen and then nothing. I've
> noticed occasional problems in 4.7's interface with other Java programs so
> this may be a Netscape problem rather than an R problem.

Get the current Netscape, which is 4.77 I believe.  There are lots of
problems with 4.7 (which is the latest UK English version and someone put
up by mistake on my machine ...).  I also found help.start() followed by
help() failed in that version.


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