Re: [R] Firefox not showing R help.
On 01/03/2015 17:21, Duncan Murdoch wrote: 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? R 3.1.3RC has been updated to work with Firefox 36.0. 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.utf8LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8LC_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_0.1-7goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4mgcv_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. -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK __ 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.
Re: [R] Firefox not showing R help.
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.utf8LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8LC_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_0.1-7goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4mgcv_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.
Re: [R] Firefox not showing R help.
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 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.utf8LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8LC_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_0.1-7goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4mgcv_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.
Re: [R] Firefox not showing R help.
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.utf8LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8LC_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_0.1-7goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4mgcv_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.
[R] Firefox not showing R help.
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.) 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.utf8LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8LC_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_0.1-7goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4mgcv_1.8-3 nlme_3.1-118 [9] polyclip_1.3-1 tensor_1.5 tools_3.1.2 cheers, Rolf Turner -- Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 Home phone: +64-9-480-4619 __ 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.
Re: [R] Firefox not showing R help.
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? What does getOption(browser) give you in R? 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 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.utf8LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8LC_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_0.1-7goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4mgcv_1.8-3 nlme_3.1-118 [9] polyclip_1.3-1 tensor_1.5 tools_3.1.2 cheers, Rolf Turner __ 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.
Re: [R] Firefox not showing R help.
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. 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.utf8LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8LC_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_0.1-7goftest_1.0-2 grid_3.1.2 [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4mgcv_1.8-3 nlme_3.1-118 [9] polyclip_1.3-1 tensor_1.5 tools_3.1.2 -- Rolf Turner Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 Home phone: +64-9-480-4619 __ 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.
