Next release of R, August 31st
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, kjetil halvorsen wrote:
Hola! A problem I have had for some versions now: When using R html help, different browsers are started on different machines. On one machine, it starts the opera browser, where html search not functions.
(Should do if Java support is installed: did when I tested.) On my home
machine (with a new version of win98), it insists on starting M$ internet explorer, even though netscape is defined as default (when cliking on the relevant help files in "explorador de windows", netscape opens). On still another machine, we have two different versions of netscape installed (4.7 and 6.?, ?), and R insist on using the old version. Would there be a good idea to define browser as an option(), so the exact location of the .exe can be defined?
No. It's done by the OS facilities, and launches whichever browser is set via the file associations (that is if you double-click on a .html file). There is no way to do this via .exe's (which is why Unix R is tied to Netscape 4.x). This works here correctly for IE or Netscape on lots of different machines. You need to get your file associations sorted out. Sorry, but it is a Windows issue: we just use the official calls.
Thanks, Kjetil. Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
I'm trying to make a habit of announcing upcoming releases on r-devel, to give package maintainers a chance of staying in sync, and to encourage everyone to report bugs in the prerelease versions. So: R-1.3.1 is scheduled for release on August 31st. In order to be able to get a solid round of testing on different platforms, maintainers of the group of recommended packages are requested to respect a feature freeze starting on August 24th. This means that only critical bugfixes should go into these packages. The list of recommended packages are (hope I didn't forget any...) KernSmooth VR boot cluster foreign nlme rpart survival mgcv -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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