Le lundi 8 Mars 2004 14:24, Prof Brian D Ripley a écrit : > This has been discussed many times on R-help, which would have been a more > appropriate forum,
Oh, sorry. I did check for bugs (closed or open) about this before posting, of course. > The issue appears to be not R, not JavaScript but Java. The latest Sun > JVM, 1.4.2_03, does not work for us, but 1.4.2_01 does (if you can get hold > of it) and for me under Linux 1.4.2_02 does not. You can use earlier > versions of Java, but not as plugins for browsers compiled under gcc 3.x. Thanks for the tip. If a Linux-specific FAQ existed it would include it. > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Full_Name: Stéphane Gourichon > > Version: R 1.7.1 (2003-06-16). > > Time for an update? Ah yes, I see 1.8.1 is available and even with Mandrake. Thanks. I'm downloading it now. > > OS: GNU/Linux > > That's nowhere near specific enough for such issues. Yes, you're quite right. I was focused on platform-neutral issues. > So please follow the advice in the FAQ and do not speculate. It is > probably the common factor you have missed, your Java installation. (It's a pity that Java seems rarely to work out-of-the box on installing a Free OS, especially in browsers.) I can't find anything about the search engine on http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html Ah, I see it. It is in the Windows-specific FAQ. May I suggest to make this an item in the generic FAQ since Java and Javascript are meant to be platform-neutral languages and the problem is not platform-specific ? Also, I would suggest that the FAQ includes the wording "search engine" and not only "search system", because it is how the page is actually names. I think many people falling on that issue look for those words ("search" occurs many times in the FAQ). > > Have you considered an on-line, server-based search engine ? This would > > definitely solve the problem, (at least for thse who have Internet > > access). > > We do provide help.search(), which does solve the problem. > The next > release points that out on the Java search engine page. Yes, the search page itself is the best place to notify the user. (Just an idea : the JavaScript code would perform return value check for the proper start of the java part and display a message on failure ? I don't know if it's possible, though. line = line + document.SearchEngine.search (searchTerm, searchDesc=="1", searchKeywords=="1", searchAliases=="1"); ) -- Stéphane Gourichon - Labo. d'Informatique de Paris 6 - AnimatLab http://animatlab.lip6.fr/ - philo du dimanche http://amphi-gouri.org/ « La meilleure façon de prédire l'avenir, c'est de le créer » Peter Drucker ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
