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Subject: r-base: R --gui=Tk gives useless error inside help.start()
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Package: r-base
Severity: minor
When you run
R --gui=Tk
you get a browser window with links,
however all the links are dead
(e.g. file:///tmp/Rtmp4XUTZq/.R/doc/manual/R-intro.html )
does not point to anything.
These links are supplied by the Debian
r-doc-html package, but unless that package
is required, something should be done about
the missing help files.
The best solution might be to have
help.start() look for the documentation
and change the front page
(file:///tmp/Rtmp4XUTZq/.R/doc/html/index.html)
to tell the user that the documentation is
currently unavailable and where to get it
(i.e. install the r-doc-html package,
and/or an internet URL).
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On 14 January 2006 at 15:34, Greg Kochanski wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 14 January 2006 at 12:54, Greg Kochanski wrote:
| > | Package: r-base
| > | Severity: minor
| > |
| > |
| > | When you run
| > | R --gui=Tk
| > |
| > | you get a browser window with links,
| >
| > I don't. I get a simple Tk-implemented clone of the Windows shell. An R
| > prompt in a terminal, with menus Files, Demos, Packages, Help.
|
|
| Sorry! You run
|
| R --gui=Tk
|
| then (as you guessed)
|
| help.start()
|
| *then* you get a browser window where all the links are dead,
| assuming you haven't installed r-doc-html
Ok, that confirms that all you need to do is to install r-doc-html. No bug,
it is designed this way.
|
| > I don't understand how you got there.
| >
| > help.start() starts a webbrowser with links to help, and that would indeed
be
| > impacted by the lack of html docs.
|
| Yep.
|
| > | These links are supplied by the Debian
| > | r-doc-html package, but unless that package
| > | is required, something should be done about
| > | the missing help files.
| > |
| > | The best solution might be to have
| > | help.start() look for the documentation
| > | and change the front page
| > | (file:///tmp/Rtmp4XUTZq/.R/doc/html/index.html)
| > | to tell the user that the documentation is
| > | currently unavailable and where to get it
| > | (i.e. install the r-doc-html package,
| > | and/or an internet URL).
| >
| > That would deviate too much from upstream behaviour. The r-base-core package
| > clearly suggests to install documentation, among it the r-doc-html package,
| > so this has the common Debian behaviour.
|
| Well, the existing behaviour is really rough on someone learning the
| package. My initial reaction to this problem was
| to mutter "What a broken crock of ***!",
| and I'm afraid that a lot of users won't get beyond that point.
No so. If you install r-base, you get a recommendation to install
r-doc-html.
We need to balance between those (like you) who everything installed, and
those you want a more fine-grained approach.
| Apparently, R creates a per-instance temporary directory
| that contains symbolic links to the HTML documentation.
|
| If that is the case, the R should be checking that the targets
| of the links exist before creating them. Whether or not
| you want to do a Debian-specific fix, it is a bug
| that R does not check for a missing file before using it.
| Really, help.start() should at least check that
| .../doc/html/index.html exists, and should produce a good
| error message if it doesn't. If that were true, then
| you just have to remove .../doc/html/index.html from
| the r-base package, and all would work nicely.
|
| An alternative approach for handling this error is
| for r-base to supply one version of
| <whatever>/doc/html/index.html
| and for r-doc-html to supply a different version of that file.
| Is there a good way to do that within Debian's package
| system?
Just install r-doc-html.
I am closing this report.
Dirk
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