On 01/07/2019 8:28 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 01/07/2019 5:41 a.m., Marvin Kiene wrote:
Additionally, the 'help.search()' always just gives the result: "No results
found", for all of my students.
Those students are probably using RStudio. This appears to be an
incompatibility in the RStudio browser to a nearly unannounced (as far
as I can see) change in the help system. You can read about the change
in the comments around line 700 of
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/utils/R/help.search.R
Perhaps if anyone from RStudio is reading this, they can read those
comments and fix things in their front end.
To work around it, students can set
options(browser="/path/to/their/browser")
where that path will depend on what system they're using. On MacOS,
options(browser="/usr/bin/open") works. On Windows,
options(browser=NULL) works. I don't know the R default on Linux.
This will cause lots of things to appear in an external browser instead
of in the RStudio display, so it's not the nicest workaround, but at
least it's fairly easy.
I just saw here:
https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/4819
that the issue is known and fixed in RStudio, but still only in a
preview release available here:
https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/
Duncan Murdoch
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