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2 messages · Brian Ripley, R. Woodrow Setzer

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(1)  Thanks to Murray Jorgensen, we have discovered that there may be
some problems if you install R for Windows in a path containing
spaces.  You should not experience problems if the shortcut used to run
R has the short (8+3) file names, and it often will (which is why we
had not thought this a problem).  However, the best solution is to avoid
paths with spaces in until the next release.

Incidentally, the Unix version probably has similar problems if it is
installed in a path with spaces in, or the tmpdir path has spaces in.
We presume no one does that!


(2) Thank you for all the feedback on help systems. All of those who got
the compiled HTML help to work (and that was almost everybody) liked
it a lot, and several liked the Windows-style help.

There was a bit of confusion: a few people assumed that because CHTML needed
IE4 installed that it used IE4: it does not, but it uses DLLs that IE4
or later install for one.

We have shipped rw0651 with all the help systems (and the formatting of
Windows help is much improved over the test version).  However, the first
version of rw0651ch.zip was missing the index and full search
facilities (a version problem in the help compiler) and Guido has
put up a revised version (dated 10/10/99, size 768k) to which you might
like to upgrade.
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Please forgive me for wasting bandwidth, but I wanted to thank you and
Dr. Masarotto and  the rest of the R development team both for this
excellent program and for your example of a cooperative development
process.

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R. Woodrow Setzer, Jr., Ph. D.             Phone: (919) 541-0128
Acting Chief, Biostatistics
and Research Support Staff                 Fax: (919) 541-4002
NHEERL MD-55; US EPA; RTP, NC 27711


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