[ESS-bugs] gnuclientw error

[Deborah Donnell]

I am generally having a great time using ESS version (2.10) to work with 
Splus (6.2.1) in Windows. But one thing I have never had much luck with 
is getting the help functions to display.

Is there some obvious reason why this fails to work?

Below is a tracback of what happens. An HTML window does appear, but no 
help text can fund its way to it..

Thanks!

 > help("rnorm")
browsing file pa00B918.txt will be removed at session end
Problem in invisible(do.call(ifelse(print, "systemPr..: Unable to 
execute 'gnuclientw.exe', exec.status = 2 (The system cannot find the 
file specified.  Full path needed?)
Use traceback() to see the call stack
 > traceback()
21: eval(action, sys.parent())
20: doErrorAction("Problem in invisible(do.call(ifelse(print, 
\"systemPr..: Unable to execute 'gnuclientw.exe', exec.status = 2 (The 
system cannot find the file specified.  Full path needed?)",
19: stop("Unable to execute 'gnuclientw.exe', exec.status = 2 (The 
system cannot find the file specified.  Full path needed?)"
18: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
17: do.call(function.name, function.args)
16: eval(expression(do.call(function.name, function.args)), local = 
parent.frame)
15: parent.do.call(on.exec.status, list(on.exec.arg))
14: system.results(ret, on.exec.status, on.exit.status, c(with, file), T)
13: systemAssoc("open", file = "pa00B918.txt", trans = T, multi = T, with =
12: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
11: do.call("systemAssoc", system.args)
10: systemOpen(file = "pa00B918.txt", trans = T, multi = T, with = 
"gnuclientw.exe"
9: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
8: do.call(ifelse(print, "systemPrint", "systemOpen"), call.args)
7: invisible(do.call(ifelse(print, "systemPrint", "systemOpen"), call.args))
6: callBrowse("pa00B918.txt", browser = "gnuclientw.exe")
5: eval(this.call, local = sys.parent(1.))
4: do.call("callBrowse", c(call.args, browser = browser))
3: browse(browser = pager, filename = connection, remove.file = T, 
window = window
2: help("rnorm")
1:
Message: Problem in invisible(do.call(ifelse(print, "systemPr..: Unable 
to execute 'gnuclientw.exe', exec.status = 2 (The system cannot find the 
file specified.  Full path needed?)
 >
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Deborah Donnell              Phone        206.667.5661
SCHARP HPTN Deputy Director  Fax          206.667.6888
SCHARP/FHCRC                 e-mail deborah at scharp.org

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