Jeff pointed out where the doc directory is installed in Ubuntu:
/usr/share/R/doc.? So this is definitely an RStudio issue:? perhaps it
got "tweaked", or perhaps Rolf installed a version meant for some other
distribution.? In either case, off-topic in R-help, I think.
Duncan Murdoch
On 08/08/2021 8:51 a.m., John Kane wrote:
R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
RStudio 1.4.1714
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
I do not see a doc folder at R level but a lot of newer packages,
probably tidyverse derived seem to have a doc sub-folder containing
documentation files
For example corrplot has a doc subfolder containing
corrplot-intro.html
corrplot-intro.R
corrplot-intro.Rmd
index.html
Jim Lemon's suggestion seems worth trying but I really think this is
some RStudio weirdity. I have been using RStudio for 3-4 years and a
several complete installations on new machines and tave never seen
anything like "R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found".
RStudio keeps getting tweaked.
On Sun, 8 Aug 2021 at 00:30, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rolf,
What about:
mkdir /usr/lib/R/doc
Jim
On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 12:45 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
Should/shouldn't there be one?
My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R.? If do an "ls" of this
directory, I get:
bin/? COPYING@??????? etc/? lib/? library/? modules/
site-library/? SVN-REVISION
Definitely no "doc".
The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have
decided
to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc"
directory.? When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the
error message
R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found.
Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R.
The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where
Rstudio wants it to.? So I created the symbolic link.
The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry.
My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install
r-base").? I apparently have the latest version.? I remark that I am
running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop.
How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make Rstudio
happy?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the? Rstudio community
forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one.
R. T.
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