Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] Using as above: \code{\link{anova}} the html help file directs to file:///home/adi/myRlibrary/stats/html/anova.html I hope it is actually ../../stats/html/anova.html and the browser is

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] Using as above: \code{\link{anova}} the html help file directs to file:///home/adi/myRlibrary/stats/html/anova.html I hope it is actually

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I think that's right -- it only works on NTFS systems. This page refers to it as an NTFS symbolic link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link On Nov 14, 2007 10:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/11/2007 7:44 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Nov 14, 2007 4:36 PM,

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-15 Thread Adrian Dusa
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] help.start() I got it. Perhaps it would be useful to have another startup option, something like: options(htmlLinksResolve=TRUE) that one could use in the .First() function from .Rprofile You could have a function to

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/14/2007 8:49 AM, Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, When creating new functions in a package, there is a See also component in the Rd file. Usually one uses \link{otherfun}, if the other function is from the same package, or \link[otherpackage]{otherfun} otherwise. The trouble is that

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, When creating new functions in a package, there is a See also component in the Rd file. Usually one uses \link{otherfun}, if the other function is from the same package, or \link[otherpackage]{otherfun} otherwise. I think you have misread

[Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Adrian Dusa
Dear all, When creating new functions in a package, there is a See also component in the Rd file. Usually one uses \link{otherfun}, if the other function is from the same package, or \link[otherpackage]{otherfun} otherwise. The trouble is that I install new packages not in the default R

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear Prof. Ripley, On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear all, When creating new functions in a package, there is a See also component in the Rd file. Usually one uses \link{otherfun},

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14/11/2007 6:09 PM, Adrian Dusa wrote: On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 11/14/2007 8:49 AM, Adrian Dusa wrote: [...] Is there a method to create links to functions from the base package, for example (which is installed by default in the normal library folder)? I

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14/11/2007 6:44 PM, Adrian Dusa wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] Using as above: \code{\link{anova}} the html help file directs to file:///home/adi/myRlibrary/stats/html/anova.html I hope it is actually ../../stats/html/anova.html and the browser is

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Adrian Dusa
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: [...] I understand, thank you. I learned from Prof. Ripley's answer that Windows has link.html.help() function to resolve the html help files from all installed packages. I didn't know about that; I mainly use the CHMHELP files. They

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Adrian Dusa
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: [...] I tried using help.start() in .Rprofile, but it throws a (probably obvious) error: Error: could not find function help.start That's just because .Rprofile is run before most packages are attached; you should be able to say

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Nov 14, 2007 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Unix-alikes, the workaround is to build soft links to all the packages in a standard location; but soft links don't work on Windows (and we don't want to get into the almost-undocumented hard links that exist on some Windows

Re: [Rd] library path in Rd link

2007-11-14 Thread Adrian Dusa
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] Using as above: \code{\link{anova}} the html help file directs to file:///home/adi/myRlibrary/stats/html/anova.html I hope it is actually ../../stats/html/anova.html and the browser is interpreting that as a full URL.