Dear list members, As an addendum to my previous message, Help buttons in Rcmdr dialogs -- which generate calls to help() -- also fail to bring up corresponding help pages.
Again, any assistance would be appreciated. John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Fox > Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel > version of R 2.0.0 > > Dear list members, > > I've encountered the following problem with the Rcmdr Help > menu in the development version of R 2.0.0 under Windows XP > ("Version 2.0.0 Under development (unstable) (2004-08-20), > ISBN 3-900051-00-3"): > > The main Commander window has a (tcltk) Help menu with three > items, "Commander help", "About Rcmdr", and "Introduction to > the R Commander", which, in the development version of the > Rcmdr package, call the following three functions: > > helpCommander <- function() help("Commander") > > helpAboutCommander <- function() help("aboutRcmdr") > > browseManual <- function() { > > browseURL(paste(file.path(.path.package(package="Rcmdr")[1], "doc"), > "/Getting-Started-with-the-Rcmdr.pdf", sep="")) > } > > (Of course, there are help pages for "Commander" and > "aboutRcmdr" in the Rcmdr package). > > These functions are not exported by the Rcmdr package, but as > near as I can tell, that doesn't seem to be the source of the problem. > > The third menu item works fine, but the other two [which > contain calls to help()] appear to do nothing. I've tried > several variations, including specifying the package argument > to help() and using ? in place of help(), but to no avail. > Curiously, calling, e.g., Rcmdr:::helpCommander() directly > from the R command prompt works just fine. > > Unrelated to the above, I've also encountered some MD5 > checksum problems with R 2.0.0 binary packages for Windows > installed from CRAN: > > ------------- output -------------------- > > files R/car have the wrong MD5 checksums files R/effects have > the wrong MD5 checksums files R/multcomp have the wrong MD5 > checksums files R/relimp have the wrong MD5 checksums > > ------------- end --------------------- > > Finally, there seems to be a dependency problem with the > lmtest package Windows binary installed via the "Packages -> > Install package(s) from CRAN" > menu in the R Console: > > ------------- output -------------------- > > > local({a <- CRAN.packages() > + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], > + available=a, > dependencies=TRUE)}) > trying URL > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES' > Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 18348 > bytes opened URL downloaded 17Kb > > also installing the dependencies 'sandwich', 'zoo', 'strucchange' > > trying URL > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/sandwich_0.1-3.zip' > Content type `application/zip' length 75982 bytes opened URL > downloaded 74Kb > > trying URL > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/zoo_0.2-0.zip' > Content type `application/zip' length 53003 bytes opened URL > downloaded 51Kb > > trying URL > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/strucchange _1.2-4.zip' > Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") : > cannot open URL > `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/strucchange _1.2-4.zip' > In addition: Warning message: > cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found' > > > > ------------- end --------------------- > > > Any help would be appreciated, particularly with the problem > I'm experiencing with the Rcmdr Help menu. > > Thanks, > John > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
