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4 messages · Dimitri Liakhovitski, Joshua Wiley

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Dimitri Liakhovitski
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I have just installed R 12.
I have Windows 7, 64-bit verison.
I currently have IE as my default browser. The internet connection is very good.

Whenever I try to run a help command (?lm, for example), I get this error:
Error in shell.exec(url) : access to
'http://127.0.0.1:20271/library/stats/html/lm.html' denied

I first got this message when Google Chrome was my default browser.
For some reason, Google Chrome stopped opening web pages. At the same
time R11 stopped showing help pages. Then, I uninstalled Google Chrome
and defined IE as my default browser. Then, I uninstalled R11 and
installed R12 instead. But I am getting the same error.

Any advice?
Dimitri Liakhovitski
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I tried one more thing - I uninstalled R again, and this time
installed it under:
C:\Users\Myname\R\R-2.12.0
And again - am gettting the same error:
Error in shell.exec(url) :
  access to 'http://127.0.0.1:30111/library/stats/html/lm.html' denied

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Dimitri

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
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Problem solved. It turned out I had to reset my IE as my default
browser for all extentions (like .html). Now, R help is working!
Dimitri

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski

        
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Hi Dimitri,

The help pages should be loaded from a local server (which is
corroborated by the 127...ip), so the internet connection should not
matter.

I would check whether IE is the default application for .html
extensions, and you could also try running R as an admin (though I do
not really think that should matter here).

Cheers,

Josh

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski

        
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote: