I've added a couple of workarounds to this in R-patched and hence the
upcoming R 2.7.2.
1) There is a new menu item on Rgui to go directly to SearchEngine.html.
2) help.start() has a new argument searchEngine=TRUE to do the same.
R 2.7.2 is 12 days' away, so it would be appreciated if Firefox 3 users
would do some testing (especially on platforms other than Windows, which
is all I have tested with Firefox 3). Hopefully these changes will appear
in R-patched in tonight's tarball and Windows binary build (from the CRAN
master).
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Keith Ponting wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jan Smit <smit1 at un.org> wrote:
I am using R 2.7.1 under Windows XP, installed at C:/R/R-2.7.1.
The location of the HTML SearchEngine is
file:///C:/R/R-2.7.1/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html. Now, when I
type
a
phrase, say "reshape", in the search text field, the Search Results
page
suggest that the location of the reshape HTML help file is
file:///C:/R/library/stats/html/reshape.html, while in reality it is
file:///C:/R/R-2.7.1/library/stats/html/reshape.html.
Is there an easy way in which I can fix this?
I too had this problem with Firefox 3.0 and 3.0.1 (but not with 3.0 RC1
by the way).
A work-around which works for me is to go directly to the search engine
page (enter URI
file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/R/R-2.7.1/doc/html/search/SearchEngin
e.html on my Windows Vista installation), rather than going there by
following the link on the R documentation page
(file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/R/R-2.7.1/doc/html/index.html)
Keith Ponting
Aurix Ltd, Malvern WR14 3SZ UK
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