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.
Typing a help topic in the help windows create a new windows with the help
text, so that works too.
| however all the links are dead
| (e.g. file:///tmp/Rtmp4XUTZq/.R/doc/manual/R-intro.html )
| does not point to anything.
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.
On the other hand, the package had always been split off under Debian, and
that is a well accepted compromises as
-- the documentation is very large
-- different people prefer different formats (info, html, pdf)
-- forcing a format on people who do not use is not efficient either.
| 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.
I would therefore lean towards closing this issue.
Regards, Dirk
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: testing/unstable
| APT prefers testing
| APT policy: (500, 'testing')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
| Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
|
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