4 messages · Carlisle Thacker, Marc Schwartz, Brian Ripley +1 more
Dear R experts, When using R 2.1 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with Mozilla 1.7.6 as browser, help.start() almost works correctly. When I follow one of the search result links everything is fine, but when I go back to follow another link, I find them all inactive. So I have to redo the search. Any suggestions? Thanks, Carlisle Thacker
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Dear R experts, When using R 2.1 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with Mozilla 1.7.6 as browser, help.start() almost works correctly. When I follow one of the search result links everything is fine, but when I go back to follow another link, I find them all inactive. So I have to redo the search. Any suggestions?
This is a known problem with Mozilla based browsers when viewing dynamically generated HTML pages, which is the case with the HTML pages resulting from help.start() searches. The best work-around is to open a link from the search results in a new tab rather than in the same window. That way you can close the tab when done and be back at the results page with live links, rather than having to redo the search itself. Also, presumably you are using R 2.0.1, not R 2.1? HTH, Marc Schwartz
Dear R experts, When using R 2.1 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with Mozilla 1.7.6 as
There is no such version. If you are using an alpha test of 2.1.0, please report exactly which one. It is not relevant here, but could have been.
browser, help.start() almost works correctly. When I follow one of the search result links everything is fine, but when I go back to follow another link, I find them all inactive. So I have to redo the search. Any suggestions?
Use another browser or live with it. It is a known Mozilla quirk (shared by all the browsers that use the Mozilla engine). As far as I recall, Opera and IE6 do this correctly, but I just live with it.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
"Carlisle Thacker" <Carlisle.Thacker at noaa.gov> writes:
Dear R experts, When using R 2.1 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with Mozilla 1.7.6 as browser, help.start() almost works correctly. When I follow one of the search result links everything is fine, but when I go back to follow another link, I find them all inactive. So I have to redo the search. Any suggestions?
There are issues with the Mozilla rendering engines and dynamically generated pages. Check out Marc Schwartz' analysis of the situation in e.g. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-April/030972.html. He also points out that a workaround is to use tabbed browsind so that you don't have to use Back. I still see the same effect with Firefox 1.0.2 and j2re-1.4.2 on FC3. BTW, R 2.0.1 is not R 2.1. The distinction is going to be important about 3.5 weeks from now.
Thanks, Carlisle Thacker
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