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R: SearchEngine (PR#6610)

2 messages · tone.zgonc@rzs-hm.si, Brian Ripley

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tone.zgonc@rzs-hm.si
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Full_Name: Anton Zgonc
Version: 1.8.1
OS: Linux RH 9.0
Submission from: (NULL) (193.2.208.9)


The SearchEngine, accessible through generated documentation by help.start()
like:

file:/tmp/Rtmp2085/.R/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html

or on WWW:

http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html

works only in Netscape 4.7x. It fails e.g. with Mozilla 1.3, 1.6 and IE 6.0.

I solved the problem by installing Netscape 4.76 and invoking help by 

    > help.start(browser="netscape4")

where netscape4 is the executable of Netscape 4.76, included in $PATH.
Brian Ripley
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I am sorry, but this is just not true.  Please search the R-help archives
for lots of comments about people having problems and others reporting
success with e.g. Mozilla 1.3 and 1.6.  The problems are not to do with R
but to do with the Java or JavaScript installation or settings.  (I am
currently only able to get this to work with the latest-but-one version of
Sun's JVM on RH8.0/9/FC1.)

I am puzzled by your reference to IE 6.0: does that run under RH9 (there is
no 9.0, as far as we know), and if so where did you get it from?  The
search engine runs in IE 6.0 under Windows if a JVM is installed.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 tone.zgonc@rzs-hm.si wrote: