On Jan 16, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:
> <quote>
> As Simon said, 2.10.1 on Tiger 10.4.11 fixed annoying bugs related to help
> and syntax error messages which make the old 2.10.0 unusable
> on my 10.4.11 PPC.
> Now, all is fine
> Phil from Belgium
> </quote>
>
> Wish I could say the same. Status for me remains as before: even in a new,
> "clean" user account, the help window is blank, and if I invoke the "fuzzy
> logic" window the list of matches shows but clicking on one does nothing.
>
> If I use help({something}, help_type="text"), I get the text help window
> with the full help info. (and help.start() does bring up a fully working
> browser page whose 'search' link works just fine)
>
> Can you suggest anything else I can try? If it does have something to do
> with web help and the firewall I'm behind at work, is there a console log or
> some other file I could dredge up for info?
>
One of the issues is that the built-in browsers don't show errors. So one way
to go about this is to enable the external browser (in Terminal):
defaults write org.R-project.R use.external.help YES
Then use the help and see what it says. To revert back to the built0in help,
you can use
defaults delete org.R-project.R use.external.help
Cheers,
Simon
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