Not striclty a bug but a problem (PR#1250)

Brian Ripley · 2002-01-09T13:34:47Z

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 ccsshb@bath.ac.uk wrote: > Version: 1040 > OS: Windows 98 SE > > Problem: > I have installed R with all help files to a network read-only drive. help.start() requires rw on two files > ../R/rw1040/doc/html/packages.html > ../R/rw1040/doc/html/search/index.txt What exactly is reported? > This is a minor issue as running R 1.4.0 help from the start menu works fine. But it won't work fine if the set of installed packages is changed, if that is an issue. > Perhaps the next ve

2 messages · Brian Ripley, Uwe Ligges

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Brian Ripley

Wed, Jan 9, 2002 5:34 AM #

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 ccsshb@bath.ac.uk wrote:

What exactly is reported?

But it won't work fine if the set of installed packages is changed, if
that is an issue.

Could you suggest a patch?   Does adding try() as in

try(make.packages.html(.libPaths()))
try(make.search.html(.Library))

help?

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Uwe Ligges

Wed, Jan 9, 2002 6:18 AM #

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

That's a very good idea!
Of course, in these cases the administrator has to call these functions
(or link.html.help()) manually again (don't know if this is still
documented or deleted from docs since the updates are done
automatically).

Uwe
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