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mozilla/firefox search engine AMD64 jre1.5 plugin linux

3 messages · Brian Ripley, laurent buffat

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laurent buffat
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Hi,
I have a problem with the "help.start()" and the search engine on a AMD64 :
The search engine use the java plugin but the java plugin is not 
available for the jre.1.5 ...

I have a linux box : fedora 4 on 64bit and R2.1.1
When I start the search engine, I had the message that the java plugin 
was missing.
So I try to install manual the java run time jre-1.5 for the AMD64, but 
the plugin was missing
( http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=568127&tstart=75 )
So I instaled the J2RE blackdown 1.4.2
I obtain the plugin for the 64bit and make the link.

When I restart R and the search engine, the plugin 1.4.2 correctly 
reconnize by mozilla
( about:plugins in the URL windows), and I don't have any more the 
message for the missing
plugin, but, then I try a search, mozilla freeze and I have to kill it :

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 > help.start()
Making links in per-session dir ...
If '/usr/bin/firefox' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and
    you must switch to its window.
Otherwise, be patient ...

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 
Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6:, extra:  Firefox/1.0.6

[root at panoramix ~]# ps -eaf | grep mozilla

root     13916 13899  0 09:40 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6 /run-mozilla.sh 
/usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6/firefox-bin -UILocale fr-FR 
file:///tmp/Rtmpo13829/.R/doc/html/index.html

[root at panoramix ~]# kill 13916

[root at panoramix ~]# /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6/firefox: line 227: 13916 
Compl??t?? "$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh" $script_args 
"$dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN" "$@      

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I am not a "system administrator" and It's my home computer (so no help ...)
So I need your help ;-)

- For the AMD64 R users : have you the same problem ?
- If yes : How you solve it ?
- If it's not possible to solve, is it possible to  find an alternative 
solution (like to acces of the search engine from an
other computer (windows, linux 32). I don't care about java plugin on 
the mozilla 64 bit, I just want the R help !!!

Thanks.
L. Buffat
Brian Ripley
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This is a 64-bit FC* issue.  I believe we did a year or so ago run i686 
firefox (from mozilla.org) and the Sun Java + plugin on AMD64 FC2.

Note that help.search() will do all that the HTML search engine does, and 
more.

On Windows, you would get help for a different version of R, but i686 
Linux would be fine.  The latter is our solution: we only use AMD64 
machines as servers.
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It's the same for me (The AMD64 is just a box).
So, as you sugest (use an over computer to browse the help)
I have share the "/usr/lib64/R " directory of the "R server " by samba
and acces to the main page :

 file://///My-R-ServerAMD64Name/R-Doc/html/index.html

And it's work fine.

I  need to use the R help of the "R-server" because there is a lot of 
package install on the server and
it will be a lot a "work / space disk" to install/update these package 
on a over computer for the help.

Thanks for your help.

L. Buffat