On 28 October 2008 at 10:28, Fritz Scholz wrote: | I have R 2.8.0 installed on Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to run fine, | except for the html help interface. | | I get help OK when doing ?mean on the command line, for example, | but when I do help.start() and try to get help for mean it gives me | an error message: | Firefox can't find the file | at /tmp/RtmpwVDJYQ/.R/library/base/html/mean.html | | or in a new session | | Firefox can't find the file | at /tmp/RtmpJklKkT/.R/library/base/html/mean.html. | | | After invoking the above ?mean again on the command line | it also produces an error message | | > ?mean | Error in | print.help_files_with_topic("/usr/lib/R/library/base/html/mean.html") : | No HTML help for 'mean' is available: | corresponding file is missing | | | The directory /usr/lib/R/library/base/html | appears to be completely empty. | | Can someone help me fix this problem? Did I miss something | during the installation of? By the way, the same problem | occurred during an earlier R 2.6.2 version.
I'd conjecture that you need sudo apt-get install r-base-html and you may want r-doc-html for the manuals while you're at it. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian