John,
due to some Server modifications on my side and quite a lot of changes in R-2.0.0 (in devel) there might be an inconsistancy on CRAN. I'll check it this afternoon (MEST).
Uwe Ligges
John Fox wrote:
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
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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'
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Any help would be appreciated, particularly with the problem I'm experiencing with the Rcmdr Help menu.
Thanks, John
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