Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
'apt-cache show r-base-core' or any of the other package tools are there to
query this information and to show it to you.
| 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.
That is simply wrong.
Funny. I've talked to several people who have given up R for packages
like SPSS for user interface reasons. Not, perhaps, because of this
problem,
but for general issues of lack-of-user-friendliness.
Your suggestions of things like
apt-cache show r-base-core
are technically fine, but completely unrealistic for most users
who really don't want to know about the Debian packaging sytem.
They want a statistical package that they can use, and don't
want to be systems administrators.
R's primary help system is the interactive one which does of course work with
just r-base-core as it uses the text files. You showed this yourself.
This has nothing to do with root access, or with who installed it.
You are after a _supplementary_ html help interface for which you need an
additional package. That's all.
Yes, a supplemental interface that exists in broken form in the base
R package.
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