On Oct 14, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Peter Cowan wrote:
I just installed the nightly from r.research.att.com called "R 2.10.0
beta (2009-10-13)" for leopard using the pkg installer.
When I use ?plot or help(plot) the help window opens, but is blank.
And, I get this warning:
?plot
Warning message:
In help("plot", package = NULL) :
htmhelp = TRUE is deprecated: use help_type ="html"
I know the help system has changed significantly in 2.10.0 and I
apologize if it is poor form to report errors such as this while the
still in the beta phase, but my reliance on these help functions has
prevented me from continuing to use the beta and test other changes.
BTW thank you for the option, in the new installer, to only install
the 64bit GUI version.
I can confirm the problem in a current download, which labels itself
as 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-08 r49995), R for Mac OS X GUI 1.30-devel
Leopard build 32-bit.
You can get to the help system by running help.start(), but internal
requests like ?plot will still go to the internal browser, which
isn't working.
Thanks - I'll look into this.
You can work around the bug by deleting the "AQUA" section of
utils:::print.help_files_with_topic, e.g. by doing as follows:
print.help_files_with_topic <- utils:::print.help_files_with_topic
and then deleting the lines
if (.Platform$GUI == "AQUA") {
.Internal(aqua.custom.print("help-files", x))
return(invisible(x))
}
from your copy of print.help_files_with_topic.
One other problem with the installer: by default it installed both
32 and 64 bit versions, but R wouldn't start until I re-installed
without the 64 bit version. I'm using Leopard 10.5.8 on an old
Intel Core Duo Macbook. Can the installer detect that 64 bit
executables are not supported, and not install it?
It *is* checking the CPU and adjusting the installation accordingly,
but there is some conflict in the automatically generated installer --
it's not present when I create the package manually so it will need
some more investigation...
Thanks,
Simon
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