HTML help pages
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:11:33 +0000 (GMT)
Damon Wischik <djw1005 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Did you check the rw-FAQ? It says If the help search system does not work _at all_, this probably indicates that Java support is either not installed or not enabled in your browser. Recent versions of browsers have made Java support optional: for example it is optional in Netscape 6/7 and in Opera, and may not be installed for IE6 on Windows XP. You also need JavaScript enabled.
I might add one can test if Java support is installed+enabled by going to http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.jsp This is Sun's java test page. My situation is that Java support is installed+enabled, but R help is still not working. This indicates some issue to do with the Javascript/Java interface. It might be paranoid security settings, though I've turned of all the security options I can find. Is there anyone running Mozilla Firebird 0.6 or 0.7 on Debian 3.0 who has got HTML searching to work?
mozilla-firebird on Debian 3 does not work for me by default, even with
java and javascript activated. I've always wondered whether there is a
way to implement this without java since the java approach has caused so
many problems for users and it seems to entail some overhead.
I routinely do options(browser='dillo'); help.start(); ?functionname. The
menus do not work but html help file displays are fine, and extremely
quick.
Frank
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University