[R] Hypertext links in help files.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Reinstallation should solve this, and did for me.
Are you sure you have picked up the reinstalled version and not one in 
some other library tree?

library(help=spatstat) will tell you when it was built.

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Rolf Turner wrote:

> 
> I've recently (finally!) installed R 1.9.0 on my laptop.  Having
> done so I've encountered a mild problem with hypertext links from
> help files in add-on packages to ``native'' R functions.  For example
> if I load the ``spatstat'' package, and ask for help on mpl(), I can
> see in the browser (I'm using mozilla) a link to glm().  When I click
> on this link I get an error message:
> 
> 	The file /tmp/RtmpLqFtcQ/.R/library/base/html/glm.html
> 	cannot be found.  Please check the location and try
> 	again.
> 
> (Hah!)  Well, it's no wonder that it can't be found --- glm() is no
> longer in the base package, but rather in the stats package.  So
> the browser should be looking for:
> 
> 	/tmp/RtmpLqFtcQ/.R/library/stats/html/glm.html
> 
> The problem arises, I guess, because the package, as it stands, was
> installed using R 1.8.1.  The code in ..../spatstat/html/mpl.html
> does indeed point to ../../base/html/glm.html and not to
> ../../stat/html/glm.html as it should.
> 
> But when I re-installed spatstat using R 1.9.0, nothing changed
> in this regard.
> 
> I presume I could fix things by completely removing the directory
> containiny the installed version of spatstat and then re-installing
> again under R 1.9.0.  But this seems a trifle indelicate.  Is there
> a more graceful way of handling this problem?  Or is there something
> that I should have done which would have kept this problem from
> arising?  I had a fairly thorough read of the ``NEWS'' file and
> could find no relevent information.
> 
> 					cheers,
> 
> 						Rolf Turner
> 						rolf at math.unb.ca
> 
> P. S. Version info:
> 
>          _                
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686             
> os       linux-gnu        
> system   i686, linux-gnu  
> status                    
> major    1                
> minor    9.0              
> year     2004             
> month    04               
> day      12               
> language R
> 
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