Dear Uwe, Brian has solved my help problem. I assume that you're responding to my report of problems with some R 2.0.0 Windows binary packages on CRAN.
Thanks for your help. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 5:24 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] Problem with Rcmdr Help menu under devel > version of R 2.0.0 > > 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 > > > > ------------- 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
