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#348051: r-base: R --gui=Tk gives useless error inside help.start(),
which was filed against the r-base package.
It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
On 14 January 2006 at 15:34, Greg Kochanski wrote:
| Sorry! You run
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| R --gui=Tk
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| then (as you guessed)
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| help.start()
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| *then* you get a browser window where all the links are dead,
| assuming you haven't installed r-doc-html
Ok, that confirms that all you need to do is to install r-doc-html. No bug,
it is designed this way.
I did *that* before I sent in the bug report.
...
| > That would deviate too much from upstream behaviour. The r-base-core package
| > clearly suggests to install documentation, among it the r-doc-html package,
| > so this has the common Debian behaviour.
|
| Well, the existing behaviour is really rough on someone learning the
| package. My initial reaction to this problem was
| to mutter "What a broken crock of ***!",
| and I'm afraid that a lot of users won't get beyond that point.
No so. If you install r-base, you get a recommendation to install
r-doc-html.
We need to balance between those (like you) who everything installed, and
those you want a more fine-grained approach.
Well, recommendations are a dime a dozen.
Recommendations without an explanation (which is not provided)
are about as useful as, well, unsolicited advice.
Do you install everything that is recommended by every
package? I doubt it.
More importantly, the recommendation is long forgotten by
the time you run into the problem. Even more importantly,
the user may not be the guy who did the installation.
Despite your arguments, the fact remains that you cannot
seriously expect most people to get R's help system working.
Especially someone without root access.
And, you know what? Without a working help system,
you can't seriously expect many people to use
the software.
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