Wrong links in help help files? (PR#14155)
On 17/12/2009 4:05 AM, henrik.parn at bio.ntnu.no wrote:
Dear R developers, ?help.search ...opens a tab in my browser (Firefox 3.5.6, Win XP): http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.search.html When I click on the link for "?", (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/help/?) in the last line of "Details", I get an error message: "Server error: invalid response from R". Similarly, The link to "??" (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/help/??) found under http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.html "See also" gives same error message. On the other hand, in the help text for "help" (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.html) the link to "?", found under "See also", is http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/Question.html, which seems to be the correct link. I did not manage to find anything on this topic in recent bug reports on "Documentation" and "Documentation fixed".
Thanks. The problem is that the HTML converter doesn't escape the question marks, which have special meaning in a URL, so they are misinterpreted. I'll look into it. Duncan Murdoch
Best regards, Henrik P?rn
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.10.1