From ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Wed Jun  7 10:16:02 2000
From: ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:16:02 +0200
Subject: [Rd] crash after help(..., chmhelp=TRUE) (PR#562)
References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10006070735300.1398-100000@auk.stats>
Message-ID: <393E12D2.C09BED4A@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>

Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

[....]
> > > > So I used the updater 'hhupd.exe'. After that (and rebooting, ...):
> > > >
> > > > R > help(ls, chmhelp=TRUE)
> > > >
> > > > Here R crashes (Dr. Watson)....
> > > >
> > > > The same happens on another machine with IE3 _and_ Netscape 4.73.
> > > > After installing IE5 everything works fine.
> > >
> > > Looks like a MicroSoft versioning problem....  With NT4.0Sp5 the updater
> > > works. I doubt if is needed at all for NT4.0Sp6, which is `a recent version
> > > of Windows', surely.

Hm.
I tested the same thing on a NT4.0Sp5 now: R crashes here also (after
using 'hhupd.exe').
So this is no problem with SP6 only! 


Note: I have used german versions of NT4, Sp5 or 6, IE3 and 'hhupd.exe'.

So is there anyone having installed english versions of these (and not
IE4 or 5)? 
Is it possible to reproduce the crash on such a system?

> > > Not an R bug, surely?
> >
> >
> > But without using 'hhupd.exe' on NT4.0Sp6, really nothing happens after
> >   R > help(ls, chmhelp=TRUE)
> 
> Does here, but then installing NT4SP6 put IE5 on. How did you avoid that?
[.....]

I took a version of SP6 without IE5-update.

Uwe Ligges
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[Rd] crash after help(..., chmhelp=TRUE) (PR#562)
Uwe Ligges