[Rd] Search engine fails entirely (PR#4966)

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Nov 6 08:18:40 MET 2003


This is a bug in your Mozilla setup (version not given) rather than in R.
It is tested regularly.

You need Java and JavaScript enabled and properly configured (and that
does not happen by default).  Please search the R-help archives for
information on this (there was a detailed posting from Marc Schwartz: 
AFAIR there is a link missing in the Java installation).

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 robert.king at newcastle.edu.au wrote:

> Full_Name: Robert King
> Version: 1.8.0
> OS: linux (debian)
> Submission from: (NULL) (134.148.20.33)
> 
> 
> Also seen in 1.7
> 
> Start R, Start html help (mozilla), go to search engine, try searching for mean
> No results given.
> 
> Mozilla javascript console says:
> 
> Error: document.SearchEngine.search is not a function
> Source File: file:///tmp/Rtmp22901/.R/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html
> Line: 32
> 
> line 32 is ....
> line = line + document.SearchEngine.search (searchTerm,


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