On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, W. C. Thacker wrote: > Dear R experts, > > I would greatly appreciate your help with R's hypertext online > documentation, which I can pass on to our system manager. We are > running version 1.7 on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 using netscape7 browser > for displaying the help. The system is working, but there are a few > frustrating details that I hope might be fixed.
So do we: take it up with Netscape! They keep on breaking things that once worked: see the comments in ?browseURL, for example. However, all my installations are under the name `netscape'. It looks like someone has renamed yours to `netscape7', in which case you will have a different behaviour. See the R function browseURL and its documentation. > Here are three problems we are having: > > 1. When the R session is terminated, the netscape7 session that was > initiated by help.start is still active. However, it no longer > provides the R help. Moreover, help.start in a new R session trys to > initiate a new netscape7 session, causing R-unrelated conflicts. Is > there a way to get help.start to use the existing netscape7 session? That's not what is supposed to happen, assuming you are using R and Netscape on the same machine, nor is it what I get. > 2. When searching using the help system's search engine, there is no > problem following links forward. But when returning to the list > produced by the search, links are no longer active, so the search has > to be repeated. Is there any way to fix it so that links remain > active? It's a known problem with Mozilla-based browsers. Try opening the forward link in a new tab or window. > 3. When using browseEnv I get the same problem as described in item 1 > above: a new netscape7 session is started. To avoid R-unrelated > problems, I have had to shut down the existing netscape7 session, so > that browseEnv, can start a new one. Is there a way to get browseEnv > to use the existing netscape7 session? Well, browseEnv is *very* experimental and its HTML version may well not be continued, but it uses the same mechanism as help.start. -- 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://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
