Summary: html Search Engine not working
jarret at duke.edu wrote:
Hi All, Yesterday I sent a message about the html Search Engine not working properly. I repeat that message below. I received some suggestions that I should have Java running. I take that to mean that I have "enabled" Java in the preferences list inside Mozilla. Yes, it's "running", or so it appears. I also opened (not from within R) the html help files using Internet Explorer 5.2 (Mac OS X) and experienced the same problem with the search engine html page in R not working, and, yes, Java is indicated as enabled. So, initial evidence seems to indicate that the solution is not so simple as to have Java running. Still, I am not so savvy about these things that the solution could not be this simple. So, other suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! jarrett PS In my previous message I (actually mozilla -version) indicated that I was running mozilla 5.0. Apparently this is a futuristic version and I may be running something like mozilla 1.0. Suffice it to say, there seems to be some conflicting information on reporting the version number of mozilla. Anyway, I don't think this is relevant in this case. On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Jarrett Barber wrote:
Hi All, Just installed R on my powerbook G4 (Darwin; see more info below)
but
have trouble with the the Search Engine and Keywords html page
after
help.start() (with Mozilla 5.0). I've browsed the archives and
have
seen some references to similar problems, but can't figure out how
to
fix it so that the search function works. When attempting to
search
for help using a keyword, nothing appears to happen; I'm still left looking at the Search Engine page. The keywords by topic links
don't
work either. Suggestions appreciated. jarrett R 1.6.1 (2002-11-01) Darwin Kernel Version 6.2: Tue Nov 5 22:00:03 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.12.2.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Darwin Power Macintosh; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020915 <developer build>
There was just an exchange on this earlier this week under Linux (RH 8.0). My experience is that both Java AND JavaScript need to be enabled in Mozilla for the search to function properly. Be sure that JavaScript for Navigator is also enabled in your browser. This is enabled under: Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Plugins In addition, Professor Ripley indicated that in his experience there appear to be Mozilla version specific issues with the search feature functioning properly. That post is at http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-help/2002/9492.html. Presuming that the underlying Java runtime versions remain the same, this might be suggestive of version specific Java/JavaScript bug issues in Mozilla. I would verify which version of Mozilla you are running and if need be, upgrade. Hope this helps provide some direction. Marc Schwartz -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._