Thanks for your suggestions. I did some further digging and found the problem was more subtle. I use Dashlane, a password management program, which requires IE to run in protected mode under Win 8. Disabling protected mode solved the problem with R help.
Jack > On May 26, 2014, at 12:02 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > > Java should be unrelated to this. One potential issue might be that > installing help is an option that you may not have selected when installing > R. Another thought is that there may be some anti virus software that is > blocking the R help server. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > >> On May 25, 2014 4:18:25 PM PDT, Jack Pincus <jack.pin...@sbcglobal.net> >> wrote: >> I've been using R for about 9 months and just installed R 3.1.0 on a >> new computer running Windows 8.1.� IE is the default browser.� When I >> type help(round) or ?round �the address: >> http://127.0.0.1:25976/library/base/html/Round.html�appears in IE but I >> get a message saying the page cannot be displayed.�Java 7 is installed >> on my computer.� I did a Google search but didn't find any solutions.� >> How can I get the help pages to display? >> >> Jack >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
