Thanks for the useful clarification. This has solved the issue. I am puzzled on why the problem has not shown up for a decade (at least), as I have had the HTML in place without explicitly asking for it. However, this is a lesser problem.
Best wishes, Adelchi > On 17 Nov 2017, at 17:03, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 17/11/2017 10:47 AM, Adelchi Azzalini wrote: >> Since I have updated my Linux system, and consequently re-installed R, I >> am unable to see HTML documentation which I used to access via a web >> browser. To be more specific, my R installation is declared to be here: >> > R RHOME >> /usr/local/lib/R >> However, if I look at a location such as >> /usr/local/lib/R/library/base/html >> this contains only two entries >> File: 00Index.html >> File: R.css >> Clicking on 00Index.html, it shows the full list of entries which one >> expects to see, but clicking on one of them, 'abs' say, inevitably leads >> to the message 'File not found'. >> The documentation exists (at least in the text form): from within R, >> the command ?abs shows the documentation file. However its HTML version >> is not where I expect it to find ...which is where I did it find for >> many years, until the above-mentioned Linux update. >> The current system is as follows: >> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" >> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" >> VERSION_ID="9" >> > uname -a >> Linux tamiso 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 (2017-06-26) >> x86_64 GNU/Linux >> > cat /etc/debian_version >> 9.0 >> > gcc --version >> gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516 >> The current R installation is >> R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) -- "Short Summer" >> but the same problem existed with 3.4.1 after the system update. >> When I (re-)install R, everything seems fine; no error messages are >> generated. >> Can anyone tell me how to put the HTML documentation files in the right >> place? > > By default the documentation is produced on demand, but you can ask to > produce it all at once. See section 2.2 of the Installation and > Administration manual. > > Duncan Murdoch > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
