The HTML help related pages are dynamically generated upon request, so there
are no static pages that would exist otherwise. I can get to the index pages
for each of the packages mentioned in Yihui's post.
That being said, I can replicate the vignette issue on:
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows"
which was a clean install on OSX Lion using the OSX binary on CRAN.
> browseVignettes("utils")
No vignettes found by browseVignettes("utils")
> browseVignettes("grid")
No vignettes found by browseVignettes("grid")
> browseVignettes("parallel")
No vignettes found by browseVignettes("parallel")
> vignette("Sweave")
Warning message:
vignette ‘Sweave’ not found
However, Matrix and survival did work.
Curiously, testInstalledPackages() did work for the vignettes without returning
an error:
> Result <- testInstalledPackages(types = "vignettes")
Running vignettes for package ‘utils’
Running vignettes for package ‘grid’
Running vignettes for package ‘parallel’
Running vignettes for package ‘Matrix’
Running vignettes for package ‘survival’
> Result
[1] 0
I then installed:
R version 2.15.1 Patched (2012-07-02 r59715) -- "Roasted Marshmallows"
from Simon's site and:
> browseVignettes("utils")
> browseVignettes("grid")
> browseVignettes("parallel")
> vignette("Sweave")
all worked.
So it would appear that there was something amiss with the 2.15.1 release
packaging or something involving the vignettes at least for those packages. A
review of the NEWS file did not reveal anything obvious to me that would be
relevant.
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
On Jul 3, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> Strange enough; I just noticed the HTML index pages of several base
> packages were gone (e.g. base, stats, tools, utils) under Ubuntu. Not
> sure if this is a problem of Debian packages or R itself.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
> --
> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com>
> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 03/07/2012 1:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> In ?Sweave, it refers to Sweave User Manual. In the doc folder of
>>> utils package, I see "Sweave.pdf".
>>>
>>> However, I can't find it from within R
>>>
>>>
>>>> vignette("Sweave User Manual")
>>> Warning message:
>>> vignette ‘Sweave User Manual’ not found
>>>
>>>
>>>> browseVignettes("utils")
>>> No vignettes found by browseVignettes("utils")
>>>
>>>
>>>> library(help=utils)
>>>
>>> does not refer to any vignettes.
>>>
>>> The vignette does not appear in the main page for utils in help.start().
>>>
>>> I checked the source code for the Sweave vignette, but I don't see
>>> anything wrong. It has all of the required elements:
>>>
>>> %\VignetteIndexEntry{Sweave User Manual}
>>> %\VignettePackage{utils}
>>> %\VignetteDepends{tools}
>>> %\VignetteDepends{datasets}
>>> %\VignetteDepends{stats}
>>>
>>> Am I accessing it incorrectly, or is there something wrong in my
>>> install of R-2.15.1?
>>
>>
>> The vignette name is "Sweave", so you should see it when you say
>>
>> vignette("Sweave")
>>
>> but you should also have seen it in
>>
>> browseVignettes("utils")
>>
>> and
>>
>> library(help=utils)
>>
>> and the page for utils in the HTML help. So it looks as though something is
>> wrong in your install. I do see it in 2.15.1 patched on Windows.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
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