On 01/03/2015 10:13 AM, Ista Zahn wrote: > I think this might be due to the removal of the -remote option in > firefox. Some discussion and details are available at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-02/msg00946.html
Yes, that's it. R uses -remote if isLocal is TRUE; I had thought it wasn't. The -remote arg is also used for mozilla and opera; is it needed there? Duncan Murdoch > > Best, > Ista > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 28/02/2015 6:43 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >>> >>> See inline below. >>> >>> On 01/03/15 10:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>>> On 28/02/2015 4:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Firefox recently updated itself on my laptop. Now when I ask for R help >>>>> --- e.g. ?plot --- I just get my home page. And no help. If I do "?plot" >>>>> again after Firefox has opened its window, I just get yet another >>>>> Firefox window, opened to my home page. (I have my preferences set to >>>>> >>>>> "When Firefox starts Show my homepage" >>>>> >>>>> --- as I always have had in the past.) >>>> >>>> I would guess that browseURL() won't work for any URL. Is that right? >>> >>> Yes. That is correct. E.g. if I do >>> >>> browseURL("http://www.r-project.org/") >>> >>> I get taken to my home page, rather than to the R home page. >>> >>>> >>>> What does getOption("browser") give you in R? >>> >>> "/usr/bin/firefox" >>> >>>> If it is just a character >>>> string (e.g. "xdg-open" is what I get in Ubuntu), does it work from your >>>> command line, outside of R, e.g. for me that test would be >>>> >>>> xdg-open http://www.r-project.org >>> >>> I tried >>> >>> /usr/bin/firefox http://www.r-project.org/ >>> >>> from the Linux command line and was taken to the R home page, >>> seamlessly. I also tried >>> >>> xdg-open http://www.r-project.org/ >>> >>> and that worked equally well. >>> >>> Finally I tried >>> >>> options(browser="xdg-open") >>> >>> and then >>> >>> ?plot >>> >>> and BINGO!!! the HTML help came up as requested. >>> >>> So I have a working solution to my problem. But I *really* don't >>> understand why changing the browser from "/usr/bin/firefox" to >>> "xdg-open" made a difference. (Since there appears to be no difference >>> at the Linux command line.) >>> >>> Anyway; thanks very much for solving my problem. >> >> I believe browseURL will quote the URL, i.e. it would execute >> >> /usr/bin/firefox "http://www.r-project.org/" >> >> Perhaps Firefox is confused by the quotes? Doesn't seem likely... >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> Rolf >>> >>>> >>>> If that doesn't work, but you can figure out a command line way to open >>>> a particular URL, change getOption("browser") to use that. >>>> >>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>> >>>>> >>>>> The Firefox that I am currently running is (according Firefox help >>>>> --> "About Firefox") is version 36.0. >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone suggest to me how I can get my html R help back? >>>>> >>>>> For what it's worth: I am using Linux, Fedora 17. (Yes, I know it's >>>>> elderly, but then so am I. :-) ) >>>>> >>>>> Also in case it has any relevance: >>>>> >>>>>>> sessionInfo() >>>>>> R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) >>>>>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) >>>>>> >>>>>> locale: >>>>>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>>>>> [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 >>>>>> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.utf8 >>>>>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.utf8 LC_NAME=C >>>>>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>>>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>>>>> >>>>>> attached base packages: >>>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>>>>> >>>>>> other attached packages: >>>>>> [1] spatstat_1.40-0.064 misc_0.0-16 >>>>>> >>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>>>>> [1] abind_1.4-0 deldir_0.1-7 goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 >>>>>> [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4 mgcv_1.8-3 nlme_3.1-118 >>>>>> [9] polyclip_1.3-1 tensor_1.5 tools_3.1.2 >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.