Hmm, from NEWS
o help.search() has new argument 'searchEngine' to go
directly to the search form: this is needed by users of
Firefox 3 to workaround a bug in interpreting the search
results pages.
and CHANGES (2.7.2)
o Rgui has a new menu item 'Html search page' on the Help menu,
which goes directly to the HTML search form. This is needed
by users of Firefox 3, which generates incorrect links in
search results when the page is accessed via the 'Html help'
menu item (or via help.start()).
It is a Firefox bug, documented in the R-admin manual.
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.05 from 2.x, and now I can reproduce a bug a
colleague has been complaining about but which I hadn't been able to
reproduce before. In Windows, set Firefox as the default browser. Then in
Rgui (seems to affect all versions up to R-devel), use the menu to open HTML
Help, and choose "Search Engine and Keywords".
Enter a keyword (e.g. plot), and click on "Search".
Things are a lot slower than they used to be with Firefox 2, but eventually I
get a result, starting out
Search Results
The search string was "plot"
base-defunct
Defunct Functions in Base Package
expression
Unevaluated Expressions
However, the current URL is not the same as it was before: it is now listed
as
file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/index.html
so the links don't work: they are entered as
"../../../library/base/html/base-defunct.html", etc. in the source, and the
expect the current directory to be
file:///<RHOME>/doc/html/search/
If I set Internet Explorer as my default browser (yuck), things are fine, so
this is a Firefox 3 bug, or a new Java bug, or an R bug that was masked
before.
Any suggestions of workarounds?
Duncan Murdoch
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