[R] IE5 and the html help function RESEND

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See my earlier reply.  Neither of you have described `the same problem' 
precisely enough to know what to suggest.

If the problem is with search, there is a link to the R-admin manual, and 
that has links to diagnostic pages.  Please go through all that before 
reporting back.

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:

> I should have specified in my previous email that I have tried Safari 
> (the Mac internet application) as well as Firefox 0.8 and IE5.2.
> 
> I am running R 1.9.0 on Mac OSX 10.3.3.
> I have the same problem when I try to use the search engine within the 
> R help html index page. If I use help.start() to open the index page, I 
> can then use "?" to search html help pages, but this provides a more 
> limited access to the help files. This above is true whether I am using 
> RAqua or R(?) within ESS and Emacs. Hank Stevens
> 
> On May 6, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Gross, Kerstin wrote:
> 
> > I recently formatted and reinstalled my laptop. Since then html-help
> > function is not working properly.
> >
> > I can open the page, however, searching for any term or opening any 
> > link
> > does not work.
> > The Internet explorer just mentions an error on the page if I try to 
> > open a
> > links and instead of searching it reloads the page.
> >
> > Reinstalling R did not help and now I am not sure if it is the IE, or 
> > R, or
> > the java script. Any idea how I could get the html functions working?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kerstin Gross
> >
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