[R] mozilla/firefox search engine AMD64 jre1.5 plugin linux

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is a 64-bit FC* issue.  I believe we did a year or so ago run i686 
firefox (from mozilla.org) and the Sun Java + plugin on AMD64 FC2.

Note that help.search() will do all that the HTML search engine does, and 
more.

On Windows, you would get help for a different version of R, but i686 
Linux would be fine.  The latter is our solution: we only use AMD64 
machines as servers.

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, laurent buffat wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a problem with the "help.start()" and the search engine on a AMD64 :
> The search engine use the java plugin but the java plugin is not
> available for the jre.1.5 ...
>
> I have a linux box : fedora 4 on 64bit and R2.1.1
> When I start the search engine, I had the message that the java plugin
> was missing.
> So I try to install manual the java run time jre-1.5 for the AMD64, but
> the plugin was missing
> ( http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=568127&tstart=75 )
> So I instaled the J2RE blackdown 1.4.2
> I obtain the plugin for the 64bit and make the link.
>
> When I restart R and the search engine, the plugin 1.4.2 correctly
> reconnize by mozilla
> ( about:plugins in the URL windows), and I don't have any more the
> message for the missing
> plugin, but, then I try a search, mozilla freeze and I have to kill it :
>
> ####################
> > help.start()
> Making links in per-session dir ...
> If '/usr/bin/firefox' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and
>    you must switch to its window.
> Otherwise, be patient ...
>
> UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720
> Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6:, extra:  Firefox/1.0.6
>
> [root at panoramix ~]# ps -eaf | grep mozilla
>
> root     13916 13899  0 09:40 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh
> /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6 /run-mozilla.sh
> /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6/firefox-bin -UILocale fr-FR
> file:///tmp/Rtmpo13829/.R/doc/html/index.html
>
> [root at panoramix ~]# kill 13916
>
> [root at panoramix ~]# /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6/firefox: line 227: 13916
> Complété "$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh" $script_args
> "$dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN" "$@
>
> #################
>
> I am not a "system administrator" and It's my home computer (so no help ...)
> So I need your help ;-)
>
> - For the AMD64 R users : have you the same problem ?
> - If yes : How you solve it ?
> - If it's not possible to solve, is it possible to  find an alternative
> solution (like to acces of the search engine from an
> other computer (windows, linux 32). I don't care about java plugin on
> the mozilla 64 bit, I just want the R help !!!
>
> Thanks.
> L. Buffat

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