Message-ID: <18695.20984.474717.451264@ron.nulle.part>
Date: 2008-10-28T17:55:04Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Help in R
In-Reply-To: <1225214927.6548.11.camel@leibniz>
On 28 October 2008 at 10:28, Fritz Scholz wrote:
| I have R 2.8.0 installed on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to run fine,
| except for the html help interface.
|
| I get help OK when doing ?mean on the command line, for example,
| but when I do help.start() and try to get help for mean it gives me
| an error message:
| Firefox can't find the file
| at /tmp/RtmpwVDJYQ/.R/library/base/html/mean.html
|
| or in a new session
|
| Firefox can't find the file
| at /tmp/RtmpJklKkT/.R/library/base/html/mean.html.
|
|
| After invoking the above ?mean again on the command line
| it also produces an error message
|
| > ?mean
| Error in
| print.help_files_with_topic("/usr/lib/R/library/base/html/mean.html") :
| No HTML help for 'mean' is available:
| corresponding file is missing
|
|
| The directory /usr/lib/R/library/base/html
| appears to be completely empty.
|
| Can someone help me fix this problem? Did I miss something
| during the installation of? By the way, the same problem
| occurred during an earlier R 2.6.2 version.
I'd conjecture that you need
sudo apt-get install r-base-html
and you may want r-doc-html for the manuals while you're at it.
Dirk
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