Dear Brian, Thank you very much for this -- I didn't grasp the implication of the NEWS item.
I still have a small residual problem with respect to notification of multiple matches, etc.: My normal procedure is to redirect informational messages from the console to tcltk message boxes, but I can't figure out how to suppress console output of these messages. If the messages were issued via warning() rather than writeLines() in print.help_files_with_topic(), I'd intercept them. Is there a reason for bypassing warning()? Again, thanks. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 1:33 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel > version of R 2.0.0 > > You need to print the result of help. From NEWS > > o help() now returns information about available documentation for > a given topic, and notifies about multiple matches. > > and (unstated) does not print. > > Brian > > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, John Fox wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
