From keith at wehi.EDU.AU  Tue Mar 17 04:44:04 2009
From: keith at wehi.EDU.AU (Keith Satterley)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:44:04 +1100
Subject: [Rd] link in base help file fails.
Message-ID: <49BF1C84.80303@wehi.edu.au>

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:

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

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Keith Satterley
Bioinformatics Division
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Parkville, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia



[Rd] link in base help file fails.
Keith Satterley