On 14/11/2007 6:44 PM, Adrian Dusa wrote: > On Thursday 15 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> [...] >>> Using as above: >>> \code{\link{anova}} >>> >>> the html help file directs to >>> file:///home/adi/myRlibrary/stats/html/anova.html >> I hope it is actually ../../stats/html/anova.html and the browser is >> interpreting that as a full URL. >> >>> instead of >>> file:///usr/lib/R/library/stats/html/anova.html >> But at run time help.start() creates links into a subdirectory of >> tempdir(). As in >> >>> help.start() > > I got it. > Perhaps it would be useful to have another startup option, something like: > options(htmlLinksResolve=TRUE) > > that one could use in the .First() function from .Rprofile > > I tried using help.start() in .Rprofile, but it throws a (probably obvious) > error: > Error: could not find function "help.start"
That's just because .Rprofile is run before most packages are attached; you should be able to say utils::help.start() to get it to run. > > > For my personal purposes, all questions have been answered though. > Thank you very much, > Adrian > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel