problem with rdocdir option when installing R2.3.1
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Christine Krahenbuhl wrote:
Hi, In the "R documentation and Administration" manual it is said that "The configure or make variables |rdocdir| and |rsharedir| can be used to install the system-independent doc and share directories to somewhere other than |libdir|".
And indeed it does so.
Then I've installed R v2.3.1 on a solaris platform (SunOS 5.9) with the following commands :
./configure --prefix=/somewhere/stats rdocdir=/elsewhere/html make make install
It works well since documentation files are located in in /elsewhere/html but when I use the html browser to compulse the
What does `compulse' mean, and what exactly did you do?
documentation, the links doesn't work. In fact, all HREF balise are like "<a href="../../library/package/...">" but the library directory is not installed to "../../library" it is installed to "/somewhere/stats/R-2.3.1/library". Is there a parameter that I've missed ?
You are supposed to use help.start() to view the HTML help pages: it makes the requisite links to a session-specific directory. (This is unrelated to your subject line: you use help.start() however you installed R.)
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595