[R] help pages do not open

Dimitri Liakhovitski dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 22:20:54 CEST 2010


I tried one more thing - I uninstalled R again, and this time
installed it under:
C:\Users\Myname\R\R-2.12.0
And again - am gettting the same error:
Error in shell.exec(url) :
  access to 'http://127.0.0.1:30111/library/stats/html/lm.html' denied

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Dimitri

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just installed R-2.12
> I have Windows 7, 64-bit verison.
> I currently have IE as my default browser. The internet connection is very good.
>
> Whenever I try to run a help command (?lm, for example), I get this error:
> Error in shell.exec(url) : access to
> 'http://127.0.0.1:20271/library/stats/html/lm.html' denied
>
> I first got this message when Google Chrome was my default browser.
> For some reason, Google Chrome stopped opening web pages. At the same
> time R11 stopped showing help pages. Then, I uninstalled Google Chrome
> and defined IE as my default browser. Then, I uninstalled R11 and
> installed R12 instead. But I am getting the same error.
>
> Any advice?
>
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
> Ninah Consulting
> www.ninah.com
>



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Dimitri Liakhovitski
Ninah Consulting
www.ninah.com



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