> On Sep 19, 2017, at 10:23 AM, Ben Tupper <btup...@bigelow.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I just updated to R 3.4.1 [R.app GUI 1.70 (7375) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0] > from http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/ but have encountered a puzzler. When I > lunch the help viewer like this... > > ?data.frame > > the viewer launches but the page content is blank. I have also tried he > search box in the help viewer as well as the menu selection 'Help > R Help' > with the same result. I have restarted both R.app and the computer without > joy. The startup message and output of sessionInfo() are pasted in below. > > I can get help successfully from a R session in Terminal.app. I poked around > in the list archives but don't see anything recent on this issue. > > What should I do to enable the help viewer?
What's in your startup files? Have you deleted or moved aside any .Rprofile and .Rdata files? I think you would also look at: getOption("help_type") Looking at other options settings I see a reference to startDynamicHelp so perhaps try: tools:::startDynamicHelp(start = TRUE) -- David. > > Thanks! > Ben > > > R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) -- "Single Candle" > Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. > > Natural language support but running in an English locale > > R is a collaborative project with many contributors. > Type 'contributors()' for more information and > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. > > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. > Type 'q()' to quit R. > > [R.app GUI 1.70 (7375) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0] > >> ?data.frame > starting httpd help server ... done > >> sessionInfo() > R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) > Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 > > Matrix products: default > BLAS: > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib > LAPACK: > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib > > locale: > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] compiler_3.4.1 tools_3.4.1 > > > > > > Ben Tupper > Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences > 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380 > East Boothbay, Maine 04544 > http://www.bigelow.org > > Ecocast Reports: http://seascapemodeling.org/ecocast.html > Tick Reports: https://report.bigelow.org/tick/ > Jellyfish Reports: https://jellyfish.bigelow.org/jellyfish/ > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac