[R] R help in windows

[P.A.J.Saunders]

Hi,

Im having a slight problem using R for windows help function. The way I have installed this was to install it on a server, and then shared 
it. In the readme file it says :

- The HTML function and package lists and search database are not
  re-generated automatically by help.start(). 

Yet, unless the user is able to write to the filestore (and able to write over the documents) i get the error

> help.start()
updating HTML package listing
Error in file(f.tg, open = "a") : cannot open file `\\kestrel\files\packages\R/doc/html/packages.html'

(Intresting that the slashes lead in different directions, although if you copy and paste that into IE, it doesn't mind anyway)

Is it possible to get this to do what the unix version did, and copy the documents, say into there profile, and run it from there? Or stop 
it from trying to re-generate the html files?

Many thanks

-- 
Pete
Computer Science Computing Officer
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