From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Nov  6 08:18:40 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu Nov  6 08:25:12 2003
Subject: [Rd] Search engine fails entirely (PR#4966)
In-Reply-To: <200311060553.hA65r90P014249@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311060713360.26300-100000@gannet.stats>

This is a bug in your Mozilla setup (version not given) rather than in R.
It is tested regularly.

You need Java and JavaScript enabled and properly configured (and that
does not happen by default).  Please search the R-help archives for
information on this (there was a detailed posting from Marc Schwartz: 
AFAIR there is a link missing in the Java installation).

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 robert.king@newcastle.edu.au wrote:

> Full_Name: Robert King
> Version: 1.8.0
> OS: linux (debian)
> Submission from: (NULL) (134.148.20.33)
> 
> 
> Also seen in 1.7
> 
> Start R, Start html help (mozilla), go to search engine, try searching for mean
> No results given.
> 
> Mozilla javascript console says:
> 
> Error: document.SearchEngine.search is not a function
> Source File: file:///tmp/Rtmp22901/.R/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html
> Line: 32
> 
> line 32 is ....
> line = line + document.SearchEngine.search (searchTerm,


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[Rd] Search engine fails entirely (PR#4966)
Prof Brian Ripley