[R] R help in windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, P.A.J.Saunders wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Im having a slight problem using R for windows help function. The way I have installed this was to install it on a server, and then shared
> it. In the readme file it says :
>
> - The HTML function and package lists and search database are not
>   re-generated automatically by help.start().
>
> Yet, unless the user is able to write to the filestore (and able to write over the documents) i get the error
>
> > help.start()
> updating HTML package listing
> Error in file(f.tg, open = "a") : cannot open file `\\kestrel\files\packages\R/doc/html/packages.html'
>
> (Intresting that the slashes lead in different directions, although if you copy and paste that into IE, it doesn't mind anyway)

No problen: all competent parts of Windows accept both.

> Is it possible to get this to do what the unix version did, and copy the documents, say into there profile, and run it from there? Or stop
> it from trying to re-generate the html files?

No, yes.  The Unix version *links* the files, not copies them, and
Windows does not have such links.

Just comment out the lines in help.start that do this, or use the menu to
go to the HTML help.  Windows end users don't need to run help.start.

We'll look into testing if the files are writeable in some future version.

You can't please all the users all the time ....  This was changed in the
1.3.1 release several months ago, and no one has commented until this
release.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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