From imosqueira at suk.azti.es  Wed Dec  1 10:50:06 2004
From: imosqueira at suk.azti.es (Iago Mosqueira)
Date: Wed Dec  1 09:47:17 2004
Subject: [Rd] \link{} to help pages in Debian
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412010803520.20128@gannet.stats>
References: <1101641542.9033.10.camel@xurelo.azti.local>
	<16810.59850.727242.266509@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
	<1101730130.9033.41.camel@xurelo.azti.local>
	<Pine.LNX.4.61.0411301751100.11452@gannet.stats>
	<1101889645.19689.89.camel@xurelo.azti.local>
	<Pine.LNX.4.61.0412010728090.19824@gannet.stats>
	<1101891769.19689.110.camel@xurelo.azti.local>
	<Pine.LNX.4.61.0412010803520.20128@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <1101894605.19689.130.camel@xurelo.azti.local>

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:24, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Under Linux, all HTML links are created to the per-session directory and 
> not to the original locations.

This is the key, many thanks. Maybe a mention of the mechanism on the
administration manual could be of help?

> I think you are expecting to be able to open the installed html file 
> directly in a browser and get the links to work.  

Indeed.

>  and you won't find it documented anywhere in the R 
> (Ironically, it does work under Windows with a separate 
> library tree.)

That irony was puzzling me, of course. That was the reason I mentioned a
non-Debian install.

> and the links will be correct, I am pretty sure.

Not all of them. help-links.sh has problems with the permission of,
among others /usr/lib/R/doc/html/R.css. But this might be, this time, a
debian installation problem.


Cheers,


Iago


[Rd] \link{} to help pages in Debian
Iago Mosqueira