[R] Help.start, .Renviron , and .Rprofile

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
> 
> > I'm converting from S-Plus Win 98SE to
> > SuSE 8.1, R 1.62 and have run into som problems.
> > 
> > 1) When I use help.start() netscape comes up OK and all links are accessible except "Search Engine & Keywords" : search doesn't work and the keywords from base doesn't respond either. ?command within R gets netscape running and works OK. 
> 
> Which netscape is this, what Java do you have installed and is it enabled?
> ?help.start does contain some details of what you need.

Sorry, ?browseURL in current R: it has been moved.

Also, you could consult the R-help archives there has been much discussion
of this.  I've never seen a problem recently in RH Linux with a properly
installed Java plugin, but Mozilla in particular had a broken plugin
installation.

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