more on RINSTALL with doc clobbers function.html

[Paul Gilbert]

After some investigation I find that  "R INSTALL   dse" seems to work well.
Also,
"R REMOVE  dse" works but does not clean out ~/.R (which would be pretty
difficult because all users may have this). The result is that a user will have
the impression that the package is installed when it has be remove. (This is
probably not too serious.)

However,  "R INSTALL   -l rlibs  dse" clobbers $RHOME/doc/html/packages.html and

$RHOME/doc/html/function.html. If help.start() is used then the first of these
is not seen by the user (and possibly is defunct and should be removed
entirely), but the second one is seen by the user (through a link in
~/.R/doc/html) and is seriously corrupted.

Some details are appended. I guess I'll stick with "R INSTALL   dse" for now.

Paul Gilbert
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After R make:
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res       154164 Nov 18 14:17
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/function.html
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res         1179 Nov 18 14:17
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/packages.html


After R INSTALL           -l rlibs  dse
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res         1493 Nov 18 14:25
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/function.html
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res          690 Nov 18 14:25
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/packages.html
these are clobbered

After R REMOVE   -l rlibs  dse
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res       154164 Nov 18 14:29
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/function.html
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res         1179 Nov 18 14:29
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/packages.html
 these are restored to originals


After  R INSTALL   dse
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res       154290 Nov 18 14:36
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/function.html
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res         1315 Nov 18 14:36
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/packages.html
These are good. DSE documentation is added and R documentation is not clobbered.

After help.start()
~/.R has
doc/      library/
 /home/res/gilp :  ls -l .R/doc/html/pac*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 gilp     res           61 Nov 18 14:41
.R/doc/html/packages-foot.html ->
/home/res4/gilp/R-versions/R-0.63/doc/html/packages-foot.html
lrwxrwxrwx   1 gilp     res           61 Nov 18 14:41
.R/doc/html/packages-head.html ->
/home/res4/gilp/R-versions/R-0.63/doc/html/packages-head.html
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res         1997 Nov 18 14:41 .R/doc/html/packages.html
ls -l .R/doc/html/func*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 gilp     res           56 Nov 18 14:41 .R/doc/html/function.html
-> /home/res4/gilp/R-versions/R-0.63/doc/html/function.html


After R REMOVE  dse
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res       154164 Nov 18 15:01
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/function.html
-rw-r--r--   1 gilp     res         1179 Nov 18 15:01
/home/res/gilp/R/doc/html/packages.html
These are restored to the original but ~/.R makes it look to the user like the
packaage is there.

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