From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Tue Mar 17 11:38:04 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:38:04 -0400
Subject: [Rd] link in base help file fails.
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On 16/03/2009 11:44 PM, Keith Satterley wrote:
> I run R on MS Windows. In R2.9.0dev, I type ?base to get "R help for package 
> base" to open. I then select ".First" from the list of contents, getting a page 
> headed: "Initialization at Start of an R Session". About half way down there is 
> a sentence:


Thanks for the report.  I can reproduce this problem with CHM help, but 
not HTML help.  I'll investigate, but it might be a limitation of the 
format.  (It's not new in R2.9.0, it is present in 2.8.1 as well.)

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> The command-line flag --vanilla implies --no-site-file, --no-init-file, 
> --no-restore and --no-environ. Under Windows, it also implies --no-Rconsole, 
> which prevents loading the ?Rconsole? file.
> 
> The last occurrence of the word Rconsole is in blue text and underlined, a link. 
> On clicking on this link, I get a page headed "This program cannot display the 
> webpage" with advice on "Most likely causes:" and "What you can try".
> 
> Other links work satisfactorily on that page. My internet connection is working.
> 
> I presume there is a problem with this Rconsole link.
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-13 r48127)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>  >
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Keith
> 
> ========================
> Keith Satterley
> Bioinformatics Division
> The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
> Parkville, Melbourne,
> Victoria, Australia
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[Rd] link in base help file fails.
Duncan Murdoch