R search applet initialization

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 mikalzet@libero.it wrote:

>
> R 1.5.1 is due to come out ... and I've just noticed that the R help.start
> page search applet doesn't work on my Mandrake 8.2 system even though I've
> upgraded mozilla to version 1.0 and I have a perfectly working java (all
> right, I'm using 1.4.0 now, but with mozilla 0.98 and java 1.3.1 it still
> didn't work). I had thought the problem due to a too-old mozilla version,
> but it doesn't seem to be that now.
>
> Error messages throughout changes in versions of mozilla and java are
> consistent: the java applet doesn't get initialized.
>
> Could this be a problem with default mandrake file permissions ?

I've never seen anything like this in RedHat 7.2, where Mozilla 0.9.6,
0.9.9 and 1.0rc2 all worked.

> Is it possible to download just the apple source code and a description of
> how it is supposed to work from somewhere on CRAN ?

It's all in doc/html/search in the source tree (you'll need to make to get
the HTML file and something to search).

> How could I go about debugging this ?
>
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> Michele Alzetta
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