From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Thu Dec 17 13:31:15 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:31:15 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Wrong links in help help files? (PR#14155)
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On 17/12/2009 4:05 AM, henrik.parn at bio.ntnu.no wrote:
> Dear R developers,
> 
> 
> ?help.search
> 
> ...opens a tab in my browser (Firefox 3.5.6, Win XP):
> 
> http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.search.html
> 
> When I click on the link for "?", 
> (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/help/?)
> in the last line of "Details", I get an error message:
> 
> "Server error: invalid response from R".
> 
> 
> Similarly,
> 
> The link to "??" (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/help/??) found 
> under http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.html "See also" 
> gives same error message.
> 
> 
> On the other hand, in the help text for "help" 
> (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.html) the link to "?", 
> found under "See also", is 
> http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/Question.html, which seems to 
> be the correct link.
> 
> 
> I did not manage to find anything on this topic in recent bug reports on 
> "Documentation" and "Documentation fixed".

Thanks.  The problem is that the HTML converter doesn't escape the 
question marks, which have special meaning in a URL, so they are 
misinterpreted.  I'll look into it.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Henrik P?rn
> 
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United 
> Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C 
> 
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.1
> 
>



[Rd] Wrong links in help help files? (PR#14155)
Duncan Murdoch