On 27/10/2009 5:08 AM, Petr PIKAL wrote:
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
There was a bug in the Windows installer (not noticed by anybody during
the alpha/beta/rc test period) so it doesn't set the default help to
HTML even if requested to do so. You can fix it by manually editing
R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site according to the comments in it.
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
That's a more serious problem. That looks as though you can't connect
to the server. Some people have said that they need to restrict the
range of IP ports that it uses (yours used port 31757, but that's a
random choice in each session).
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
Right, that file doesn't exist unless you make a special build to
contain it (and you'll lose some of the functionality of the new help
system if you do).
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.
No.
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?
Yes, it should. Address 127.0.0.1 is defined to be the local loopback
port, so you're connecting to yourself.
Duncan Murdoch
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
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