on 01/09/2009 10:59 AM 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
Duncan, It is covered in R-Admin: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Enabling-search-in-HTML-help "There is a known issue with Firefox 3 (and 3.0.1). The links in the results page may point to the wrong directory level. This is a bug in the way Firefox is interpreting relative URLs, and can be circumvented by opening the HTML search page (.../doc/html/SearchEngine.html) directly rather than from .../doc/html/index.html as shown by help.start()." and in ?help.start in the Note: Note to users of Firefox 3: the search results have links that are resolved incorrectly by that browser if starting from the normal HTML index page. The workaround is to start with help.start(searchEngine = TRUE) HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
