On 25 March 2005 at 00:10, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| Package: r-doc-html
| Version: 2.0.1-4
| Followup-For: Bug #300767
|
|
| The same thing happened to me on my machine at work after upgrading R. I
| solved it by purging and reinstalling the R packages. Now, weeks later,
| at home, I find the same situation with broken links where the manuals
| should be. I guess I didn't call help.start() in the meantime on this
| system.
|
| brahms:~# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/manual/
| total 0
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 22 20:30 R-FAQ.html ->
| ../../../../lib/R/doc/manual/R-FAQ.html
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Feb 22 20:30 R-admin.html ->
| ../../../../lib/R/doc/manual/R-admin.html
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Feb 22 20:30 R-data.html ->
| ../../../../lib/R/doc/manual/R-data.html
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Feb 22 20:30 R-exts.html ->
| ../../../../lib/R/doc/manual/R-exts.html
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Feb 22 20:30 R-intro.html ->
| ../../../../lib/R/doc/manual/R-intro.html
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Feb 22 20:30 R-lang.html ->
| ../../../../lib/R/doc/manual/R-lang.html
Ack.
| Any suggestions what I could do to check the cause of this?
I am not sure. One thing I could think of is the sequence of installing
r-base-core and r-doc-html because the latter could have linked onto the
former -- in the way that r-mathlib, which really depends on r-base-core, does:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -ld /usr/share/doc/r-{mathlib,base-core}
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 21 22:32 /usr/share/doc/r-base-core
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct 12 19:24 /usr/share/doc/r-mathlib ->
r-base-core
I may have done the same once for r-doc-html.
Is there a chance your office and home machines are "old", i.e. had R back
around 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, ... ?
| Thanks for your great packages, anyway!
My pleasure!
Regards, Dirk
PS I may be off email for a few days, so I may not respond quickly to your
next mail.
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