[R] Mozilla 1.2

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

You could just use the `browser' option to help.start to select Mozilla
1.2, or options("browser").

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> I should be more specific here. It works if you use Mozilla 1.2 to go
> directly to the SearchEngine.html page in your $R_HOME. But
> if you use help.start() from R, you typically use Mozilla 1.1 from
> fink (the GTK version), which does not work. A quick hack is not to
> say help.start(), but to say
>
> system(paste("open -a
> Mozilla",paste(Sys.getenv("R_HOME"),"/doc/html/index.html",sep="")))
>
> This works for me and gives me the Carbon Mozilla 1.2. This does NOT
> work
> with Navigator, OmniWeb, and fortunately also not with MSIE.
>
> What also works is defining a script /usr/local/bin/netscape with
>
> #!/bin/sh
> open -a Mozilla /usr/local/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
>
> and then using help.start().
>
> On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:30 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
>
> > The R search engine (at least the one at
> > http://stat.ethz.ch/R-alpha/R-patched/doc/html/)
> > works again in Mozilla 1.2, released today (at least on OS X and with
> > JDK 1.4.1).
> ===
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> Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical
> Software
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