Help page links to index.html are dead (PR#8196)
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
kwright68 at gmail.com wrote:
Full_Name: Kevin Wright Version: 2.2.0 OS: windows Submission from: (NULL) (66.185.0.208) On the help pages for R is a little circle with an up arrow that links to: file:///C:/R/R220/doc/html/index.htmlu
That's a typo in Kevin's message: the link is to .../doc/html/index.html. The link is correct, but the file was not installed. The Makefile creates it as a copy of rwin.html. Do you remember why we have both files? This bug has been around for a while...
Yes, rwin.html contains an additional link to rw-FAQ.html. Now the Windows index.html should be the same: indeed, it is installed as such by fixed/Makefile. So it's a bug in building the installer. If you are asking why rwin.html is needed: until recently the sources contained doc/html/index.html so it was likely to be restored. It seems to me there is another error in the message: the help pages contain no such link (which threw me for a while). It does appear on the summary page for a package, and on packages.html.
This link is dead. I suspect the link should be: file:///C:/R/R220/doc/html/rwin.html P.S. It should be obvious, but just in case, I have R installed at c:/R/R220
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