On 28/02/2015 4:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> Firefox recently updated itself on my laptop. Now when I ask for R help
> --- e.g. ?plot --- I just get my home page. And no help. If I do "?plot"
> again after Firefox has opened its window, I just get yet another
> Firefox window, opened to my home page. (I have my preferences set to
>
> "When Firefox starts Show my homepage"
>
> --- as I always have had in the past.)
I would guess that browseURL() won't work for any URL. Is that right?
What does getOption("browser") give you in R? If it is just a character
string (e.g. "xdg-open" is what I get in Ubuntu), does it work from your
command line, outside of R, e.g. for me that test would be
xdg-open http://www.r-project.org
If that doesn't work, but you can figure out a command line way to open
a particular URL, change getOption("browser") to use that.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> The Firefox that I am currently running is (according Firefox help
> --> "About Firefox") is version 36.0.
>
> Can anyone suggest to me how I can get my html R help back?
>
> For what it's worth: I am using Linux, Fedora 17. (Yes, I know it's
> elderly, but then so am I. :-) )
>
> Also in case it has any relevance:
>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8
>> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.utf8
>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.utf8 LC_NAME=C
>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] spatstat_1.40-0.064 misc_0.0-16
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] abind_1.4-0 deldir_0.1-7 goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2
>> [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4 mgcv_1.8-3 nlme_3.1-118
>> [9] polyclip_1.3-1 tensor_1.5 tools_3.1.2
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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