[R] debian packages and html help on linux
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue May 25 19:14:42 CEST 2004
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Kari Ruohonen wrote:
> I have a fresh installation of R from debian unstable packages. The
> html index found in /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html works in Mozilla
> and under the link of 'packages' on this page I have a list and
> corresponding links. However, it appears that not all packages I have
> installed from available deb files via apt-get, will get their link
> updated to this package index. Specifically, from packages
> r-cran-boot, r-cran-car, r-cran-coda, r-cran-design, r-cran-effects,
> r-cran-foreign, r-cran-gregmisc, r-cran-hmisc, r-cran-its,
> r-cran-lattice, r-cran-lmtest, r-cran-mcmcpack, r-cran-mgcv,
> r-cran-multcomp, r-cran-relimp, r-cran-rgl, r-cran-rpart, r-cran-sm,
> r-cran-tseries, r-cran-vr, r-omegahat-ggobi, r-cran-kernsmooth none
> appeared to html package index. This also means that html search
> doesn't find functions within these packages although it otherwise
> works perfectly with my Mozilla.
>
> What shall I do to get also these package to the package index?
Use the correct index: see ?help.start. Installing a package does not
update /usr/lib/R/doc/html/packages.html, but help.start() creates a
current index dynamically.
If you really want to do this without running R, use
R CMD perl /usr/lib/R/share/perl/build-help.pl --htmllists
to update the static index. From inside R you can run
make.packages.html(). In both cases, you need write permission in
/usr/lib/R/doc/html.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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