Rich: Both IE and Firefox are unable to find the link you supplied. However, that's only because I've restarted my R session since I pasted the error output (and it appears that each time I restart R, the URL is slightly different). This time, I get:
> ?sum starting httpd help server ... done Error in shell.exec(url) : access to 'http://127.0.0.1:31836/library/base/html/sum.html' denied --- If I paste the new URL into either browser, I can read the entry without issue. This is what I've been doing to read help entries, but it's tedious to copy and paste the URL into a browser every time I want to read the entry for a particular function.. Happy to hear any other ideas! Best, Jonathan On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:00 PM, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER <r...@temple.edu> wrote: > If you paste > > > http://127.0.0.1:12300/library/base/html/sum.html > > > directly into an IE window, will it find it? You need to do that > after the attempt fails > in order to get the right port number for the current instance. > [[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.