Message-ID: <cd166c030803070357g785b6d11v45e2a25e9a65f71d@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-03-07T11:57:44Z
From: Jon Olav Vik
Subject: Error: file association for 'doc\html\index.html' not available or invalid
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803071126520.23460@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
On 3/7/08, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Today HTML help stopped working. The menu command "Help > Html help" usually
> > brings up my default web browser (Opera 9.26), but now R gives the error
> > Error: file association for 'doc\html\index.html' not available or invalid
> > If I try the same menu command a second time, R crashes
[...]
> Try re-setting the file association for .html files -- it looks as if it
> has been corrupted (not by R).
Blimey. It worked.
I'm sorry I didn't mention it in my first post, but *.html files did
open with Opera even while R would crash. However, following your
suggestion, I looked at the Properties for an html file, and it said
"Opens with: unknown application". (Strangely enough, the file icon
was still Opera's "O".) So I re-selected Opera as the default
application, and everything went back to normal. Thank you so much for
your help!
Jon Olav