2.10.0 beta help functions
Hmm, I think you probably have pre-built html pages. I simply don't see any code that will generate them, either directly or by starting the httpd server to do so. I just did some quick experiments, and I get blank pages on packages without pre-built html, and correct ones on a package I just installed with 'R CMD INSTALL --html'.
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Rob Goedman wrote:
Peter, On my system (SnowLeopard, below R builds) I did see the warning messages (but the internal help worked fine). This morning I changed the htmlhelp settings as suggested by the warning message ( help_type ='html' ) in main.m and rebuild R.app. The warnings are gone and help still works. Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R version 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-15 r50083) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 ... [R.app GUI 1.30 (5495) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0] [Workspace restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.RData]
?ls
Warning message:
In help("ls", package = NULL) :
htmhelp = TRUE is deprecated: use help_type ="html"
On Oct 14, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Peter Cowan wrote:
I just installed the nightly from r.research.att.com called "R 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-13)" for leopard using the pkg installer. When I use ?plot or help(plot) the help window opens, but is blank. And, I get this warning:
?plot
Warning message:
In help("plot", package = NULL) :
htmhelp = TRUE is deprecated: use help_type ="html"
I know the help system has changed significantly in 2.10.0 and I
apologize if it is poor form to report errors such as this while the
still in the beta phase,
To the contrary! The whole point of the beta phase is that it gets tested and all errors reported -- I'll look into this, thanks for the report. Cheers, Simon
but my reliance on these help functions has prevented me from continuing to use the beta and test other changes. BTW thank you for the option, in the new installer, to only install the 64bit GUI version. Thank you, Peter
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