On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Christine Krahenbuhl wrote: > Hi, > > In the "R documentation and Administration" manual it is said that "The > configure or make variables |rdocdir| and |rsharedir| can be used to > install the system-independent doc and share directories to somewhere > other than |libdir|".
And indeed it does so. > Then I've installed R v2.3.1 on a solaris platform (SunOS 5.9) with the > following commands : > > ./configure --prefix=/somewhere/stats rdocdir=/elsewhere/html > > make > > make install > > It works well since documentation files are located in in > /elsewhere/html but when I use the html browser to compulse the What does `compulse' mean, and what exactly did you do? > documentation, the links doesn't work. > In fact, all HREF balise are like "<a href="../../library/package/...">" > but the library directory is not installed to "../../library" it is > installed to "/somewhere/stats/R-2.3.1/library". > > Is there a parameter that I've missed ? You are supposed to use help.start() to view the HTML help pages: it makes the requisite links to a session-specific directory. (This is unrelated to your subject line: you use help.start() however you installed R.) -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
