Re: [Rd] Can´t start help and update on Mac (PR#6920

[stefano iacus]

"open" works on my system, so it seems something related to user 
specific settings.
Can you please try to issue the command open from a Terminal on a html 
file to see if safari or your favorite browser pops up?

i.e.

open my_file.html

stefano

On Jun 10, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> reposTools is part of Bioconductor not R.  Please use the correct bug
> repository.
>
> Note that PR#6920 does not mention any `error message' whatsoever (nor
> does it claim to): the message quoted
>
> help.start()
> Making links in per-session dir ...
> If /usr/bin/open is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you
> must switch to its
>      window.
> Otherwise, be patient ...
>
> is the standard informational message.  We need to know what the error
> actually is.  If no browser window opens, then does it help to have one
> open already?  (Was true of Netscape 7.0.)  Does setting a more 
> standard
> browser (e.g. Mozilla) solve this ....
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 kestler at onlinehome.de wrote:
>
>>
>> --Apple-Mail-1--963012407
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> 	charset=US-ASCII;
>> 	format=flowed
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get exactly the same error message as in report no 6920. 
>> Furthermore,
>> starting "update Bioconducter" the following message appears (running
>> Mac OS X 10.3.4 (7H63)) :
>>
>>> {library(reposTools);update.packages2(getAllDeps=TRUE)}
>>
>> Synching your local package management information ...
>> Packages which have been added/updated:
>> 	sm
>> 	sma
>> 	wavethresh
>> 	
>>
>>
>> 	Note: reposTools can not access
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library.
>> 	This will not affect your R session unless you wish
>> 	to install/update/remove packages from this directory
>>
>> Note: argument `lib' is missing: using /Users/admin/Library/R/library
>>   Note: argument `lib' is missing: using
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library
>>   Note: argument `lib' is missing: using
>> /tmp/RtmpKEgaWQ/tempLibs/file3ab50c2a
>>
>> Synching your local package management information ...
>>
>> 	Note: reposTools can not access
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library.
>> 	This will not affect your R session unless you wish
>> 	to install/update/remove packages from this directory
>>
>> Error in lapply(locLibList, Package) : Object "locLibList" not found
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>>            Hans Kestler
>
>
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