[R] wrong path to helpfiles

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri May 2 19:21:35 CEST 2008


See the footer of this message.  We have no idea what OS, what version of 
R, what type of help ....

That message does not appear in the R sources.  Is it verbatim in English 
from R?


On Fri, 2 May 2008, Michael Gerisch wrote:

> hi,
>
> since lately i receive an error message when prompting ?help:
> "help will not be available. path not found". It is not possible to get help
> for any command. I don`t know why but it seems that i need to tell R the
> right path for the helpfiles. How can i do that?
>
> thanks a lot
> cheers
> michael
>
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