From jfox at mcmaster.ca  Sun Aug 29 07:05:49 2004
From: jfox at mcmaster.ca (John Fox)
Date: Sun Aug 29 07:05:53 2004
Subject: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel version of R 2.0.0 
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Dear list members,

As an addendum to my previous message, Help buttons in Rcmdr dialogs --
which generate calls to help() -- also fail to bring up corresponding help
pages. 

Again, any assistance would be appreciated.
 John 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of John Fox
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:53 PM
> To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel 
> version of R 2.0.0 
> 
> Dear list members,
> 
> I've encountered the following problem with the Rcmdr Help 
> menu in the development version of R 2.0.0 under Windows XP 
> ("Version 2.0.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-08-20), 
> ISBN 3-900051-00-3"):
> 
> The main Commander window has a (tcltk) Help menu with three 
> items, "Commander help", "About Rcmdr", and "Introduction to 
> the R Commander", which, in the development version of the 
> Rcmdr package, call the following three functions:
> 
> helpCommander <- function() help("Commander")
> 
> helpAboutCommander <- function() help("aboutRcmdr")
> 
> browseManual <- function() {
>     
> browseURL(paste(file.path(.path.package(package="Rcmdr")[1], "doc"), 
>         "/Getting-Started-with-the-Rcmdr.pdf", sep=""))
>     }
> 
> (Of course, there are help pages for "Commander" and 
> "aboutRcmdr" in the Rcmdr package).
> 
> These functions are not exported by the Rcmdr package, but as 
> near as I can tell, that doesn't seem to be the source of the problem.
> 
> The third menu item works fine, but the other two [which 
> contain calls to help()] appear to do nothing. I've tried 
> several variations, including specifying the package argument 
> to help() and using ? in place of help(), but to no avail. 
> Curiously, calling, e.g., Rcmdr:::helpCommander() directly 
> from the R command prompt works just fine.
> 
> Unrelated to the above, I've also encountered some MD5 
> checksum problems with R 2.0.0 binary packages for Windows 
> installed from CRAN:
> 
> ------------- output --------------------
> 
> files R/car have the wrong MD5 checksums files R/effects have 
> the wrong MD5 checksums files R/multcomp have the wrong MD5 
> checksums files R/relimp have the wrong MD5 checksums
> 
> -------------  end  ---------------------
> 
> Finally, there seems to be a dependency problem with the 
> lmtest package Windows binary installed via the "Packages -> 
> Install package(s) from CRAN"
> menu in the R Console:
>     
> ------------- output --------------------
> 
> > local({a <- CRAN.packages()
> + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], 
> + available=a,
> dependencies=TRUE)})
> trying URL 
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 18348 
> bytes opened URL downloaded 17Kb
> 
> also installing the dependencies 'sandwich', 'zoo', 'strucchange'
> 
> trying URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/sandwich_0.1-3.zip'
> Content type `application/zip' length 75982 bytes opened URL 
> downloaded 74Kb
> 
> trying URL 
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/zoo_0.2-0.zip'
> Content type `application/zip' length 53003 bytes opened URL 
> downloaded 51Kb
> 
> trying URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/strucchange
_1.2-4.zip'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : 
>         cannot open URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/strucchange
_1.2-4.zip'
> In addition: Warning message: 
> cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found' 
> > 
> 
> -------------  end  ---------------------
> 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated, particularly with the problem 
> I'm experiencing with the Rcmdr Help menu.
> 
> Thanks,
>  John
> 
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[Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel version of R 2.0.0
John Fox