[Rd] Help page links to index.html are dead (PR#8196)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> kwright68 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Full_Name: Kevin Wright
>> Version: 2.2.0
>> OS: windows
>> Submission from: (NULL) (66.185.0.208)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On the help pages for R is a little circle with an up arrow that links to:
>> 
>> file:///C:/R/R220/doc/html/index.htmlu
>
> That's a typo in Kevin's message:  the link is to .../doc/html/index.html. 
> The link is correct, but the file was not installed.  The Makefile creates it 
> as a copy of rwin.html.  Do you remember why we have both files?  This bug 
> has been around for a while...

Yes, rwin.html contains an additional link to rw-FAQ.html.  Now the 
Windows index.html should be the same: indeed, it is installed as such by 
fixed/Makefile.  So it's a bug in building the installer.

If you are asking why rwin.html is needed: until recently the sources 
contained doc/html/index.html so it was likely to be restored.


It seems to me there is another error in the message: the help pages 
contain no such link (which threw me for a while).  It does appear on the 
summary page for a package, and on packages.html.


>> This link is dead.  I suspect the link should be:
>> 
>> file:///C:/R/R220/doc/html/rwin.html
>> 
>> P.S. It should be obvious, but just in case, I have R installed at 
>> c:/R/R220
>> 
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