On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > On 11/24/2009 8:20 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> you could use the Sweave like macro to compute the path inside the Rd >>>> environments >>>> >>>> \Sexpr{file.path(system.file(package="AlgDesign", "doc"), >>>> "AlgDesign.pdf")} >>>> >>>> described in 'Writing R extensions' 2.11 >>>> >>>> >>>> <http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/doc/manual/R-exts.html#Dynamic-pages> >>> >>> >>> That won't work with dynamic help. (It surprised me, too.) You can't >>> link >>> to the file system from within the dynamic help pages. You can't link to >>> a >>> file:// link, which is what you'd need to get that to work. >>> >>> This is a browser restriction, for security reasons. You don't want >> >> I am able to read files from my file system from the browser. For >> example enter this into the Windows command line: >> >> echo some dummy text > dummy.html >> echo "<a href=dummy.html>dummy</a>" > test-read-file.html >> test-read-file.html >> >> and click on dummy when the contents of test-read-file.html appears in >> the browser. >> >> For me, it causes the contents of the dummy.html file to appear in the >> browser. I am on Windows Vista and I tried it in IE8, Firefox 3.5.5 >> and Chrome 3.0 and it worked in all three. > > The rule in most browsers is that pages retrieved via http:// links can't > link to file:// links. Presumably your local file was already a file:// > link.
But the help files are local. It would seem that this problem would be addressed if the help files were not displayed using http:// ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel