From ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Wed Jan  9 14:18:49 2002
From: ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:18:49 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Not striclty a bug but a problem (PR#1250)
References: <200201091334.OAA24436@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <3C3C5149.389812A9@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 ccsshb@bath.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > Version: 1040
> > OS: Windows 98 SE
> >
> > Problem:
> > I have installed R with all help files to a network read-only drive. help.start() requires rw on two files
> > ../R/rw1040/doc/html/packages.html
> > ../R/rw1040/doc/html/search/index.txt
> 
> What exactly is reported?
> 
> > This is a minor issue as running R 1.4.0 help from the start menu works fine.
> 
> But it won't work fine if the set of installed packages is changed, if
> that is an issue.
> 
> > Perhaps the next version may address this?
> 
> Could you suggest a patch?   Does adding try() as in
> 
> try(make.packages.html(.libPaths()))
> try(make.search.html(.Library))
> 
> help?

That's a very good idea!
Of course, in these cases the administrator has to call these functions
(or link.html.help()) manually again (don't know if this is still
documented or deleted from docs since the updates are done
automatically).

Uwe
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[Rd] Not striclty a bug but a problem (PR#1250)
Uwe Ligges