Hi I have just installed R 2.10.0 version (I used dev version before) and have similar problems with help files. starting plain version freshly installed R on WXP
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 ?plot only text help appears > help.start() starting httpd help server ... done If nothing happens, you should open 'http://127.0.0.1:31757/doc/html/index.html' yourself pops up browser window with ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://127.0.0.1:31757/doc/html/index.html The following error was encountered: Connection to 127.0.0.1 Failed The system returned: (111) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. If I try to start help from local /doc/html/packages.html I can start the browser but when trying to access let say plot help I end with Tyto webové stránky nebyly nalezeny. # web pages was not found Na webové adrese se nepodařilo nalézt žádnou webovou stránku: file:///D:/programy/R-2.10.0/library/graphics/html/plot.html # There is no web page file:///D:/programy/R-2.10.0/library/graphics/html/plot.html Více informací o této chybě Níže uvádíme původní chybovou zprávu # more information about this fault Chyba 6(net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): Soubor nebo adresář se nepodařilo nalézt. One workaround could be to copy help files from old version of R but I wonder if this is intended method. I apologise if I overlooked some simple solution but I did not find a clue in NEWS and/or CHANGES. It may be due to security setting of our network but before I will ask our IT guys I would like to cope with it myself. I could bear with text help but html help is much more convenient. BTW. Does this kind of html help work with PC which is not connected to web? Best regards Petr Pikal r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 27.10.2009 00:05:53: > I don't see anything below that is new today. Are you saying you didn't > test any of the pre-release versions? You're basically stuck with the > features that come out in .0 releases until the next one. I'll fix the > typo in 4, but the rest of it is unlikely to change much in the next six > months. > > Duncan Murdoch > > On 26/10/2009 6:46 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: > > (On Windows XP with R 2.10.0) > > > > 1. In the past, I have used a desktop search engine (X1) to pre-index all of > > R's html help files. Obviously, this no longer works with dynamic help > > pages. It also appears that the .Rd files are converted to a binary format > > when installed and cannot be indexed by X1. > > > > 2. I like to use firefox to type 'xyplot' into the 'awesome bar' and go to > > the appropriate help page. This obviously no longer works. > > > > 3. I daily run several different R sessions to keep different projects > > separate. The NEWS file says: > > > > - The HTML help can now locate cross-references of the form > > \link[pkg]{foo} and \link[pkg:foo]{bar} where 'foo' is an > > alias in the package, rather than the documented (basename > > of a) filename (since the documentation has been much ignored). > > > > This appears to only be true if the original R session is still active. > > Close one R session and the links die in the browser. Aahg! What madness! > > > > 4. The NEWS file says: > > > > o A new dynamic HTML help system is used by default, and may be > > controlled using tools::startDynamicHelp(). With this enabled, > > HTML help pages will be generated on request, resolving links > > by searching through the current .libPaths(). The user > > may set option("help.ports") to control which IP port is used > > by the server. > > > > This should be 'options', of course. The 'options' page does not reference > > "help.ports", but from an email on r-help I see options(help.ports = > > sample(6800:6850)). So I can fix the port at 6800, but the help page for > > xyplot still disappears after closing an R session. > > > > 5. If I want to use --enable-prebuilt-html, I assume that I will have to > > download the source and configure/build it myself instead of using the > > pre-compiled Windows binaries? Same with packages? (Sorry if this is > > obvious, I've never needed to do this before.) > > > > > > Looking for a new workflow and remembering why I don't like to use ".0" > > releases... > > > > Kevin Wright > > > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.
