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Jan de Leeuw
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The R search engine (at least the one at  
http://stat.ethz.ch/R-alpha/R-patched/doc/html/)
works again in Mozilla 1.2, released today (at least on OS X and with  
JDK 1.4.1).
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
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Jan de Leeuw
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I should be more specific here. It works if you use Mozilla 1.2 to go
directly to the SearchEngine.html page in your $R_HOME. But
if you use help.start() from R, you typically use Mozilla 1.1 from
fink (the GTK version), which does not work. A quick hack is not to
say help.start(), but to say

system(paste("open -a  
Mozilla",paste(Sys.getenv("R_HOME"),"/doc/html/index.html",sep="")))

This works for me and gives me the Carbon Mozilla 1.2. This does NOT  
work
with Navigator, OmniWeb, and fortunately also not with MSIE.

What also works is defining a script /usr/local/bin/netscape with

#!/bin/sh
open -a Mozilla /usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html

and then using help.start().
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:30 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
   
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You could just use the `browser' option to help.start to select Mozilla
1.2, or options("browser").

        
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The problem with that is we need to open an OX X Carbon application  
from the
terminal command line. If we just set the browser to Mozilla it opens  
the X11 version,
but you cannot open Mozilla.app without using the "open" command. Your
suggestion will work, I hope, as soon as the GTK Mozilla is upgraded to  
1.2
in fink, provided that also handles the Java well. For the time being  
the
little netscape script is a quiet and innocent hack. You can also call  
it
mozilla, of course, and then use options("browser").

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 12:49 AM, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
   
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      Brian Ripley
    

    

      
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But what you set could be "open -a Mozilla": it does not have to be
`Mozilla'.  I assume that if `open' works from a shell in your example it
will equally work from the shell called by R to invoke the browser.

        
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Curiously enough

 > options(browser="open -a Mozilla")
 > help.start()

open the index.html file in $R_HOME/doc/html in the default browser
(which happens to be Chimera on my machine, which has broken Java
support on Jaguar). So it ignores the -a switch. Maybe something with  
shell
escapes (?). In the shell "open -a Mozilla foo.html" works fine.

Indeed, "open" will use the default browser defined in LaunchServices  
if asked
to open a foo.html file. If I set Mozilla as my default browser in  
System
Preferences, then even

 > options(browser="open")
 > help.start()

works fine. So this is another way to do it. But unfortunately I don't  
want
carbon Mozilla as my default OS X browser. It's ugly.

So for me the little netscape script hack is the simplest way to go.

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:14 AM, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  
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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu
   
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