On 10/16/2009 10:39 AM, Dieter Menne wrote:
I noted that the new html-help in 2.10 under Windows uses a random port on my
computer.
This cause a problem, because when I create a link such as:
http://127.0.0.1:28027/library/stats/html/addmargins.html
this is for one-time use only. Is it possible to fix the port?
Not currently. If you look in tools:::startDynamicHelp you can see how
it is set up; you could duplicate that setup as a temporary workaround.
You might be better off to build R with static help instead. What is
the application where you want to be able to give out links? Perhaps we
could consult an environment variable or option() to choose the port
instead of leaving it completely random.
The reason it is random is the worry that multiple R instances on the
same machine might collide. All processes on the machine see the same
ports.
Duncan Murdoch
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