[R] HTML search & Firefox

[tom wright]

I have a similar problem here:
/tmp/RtmpgRyAdm/.R/doc/manual/R-exts.html

the folder structure exists just no files in it. There are subfolders
with files and symlinks in so I doubt its a permissions problem.

> R.Version()
$platform
[1] "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

$arch
[1] "x86_64"

$os
[1] "linux-gnu"

$system
[1] "x86_64, linux-gnu"

$status
[1] ""

$major
[1] "2"

$minor
[1] "1.0"

$year
[1] "2005"

$month
[1] "04"

$day
[1] "18"

$language
[1] "R"


On Fri, 2005-09-12 at 11:40 +0100, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry if this question was already asked (I though it was... but did not 
> found the exact answer in the archives).
> 
> I use R 2.2.0 and just updated to Firefox 1.5 (note that I already got 
> the same result with Firefox 1.x.x) under Win XP sp2 US (full details of 
> my config hereunder). When I try to use the HTML help search page, I can 
> make a search: the message 'Applet SearchEngine started' appears in the 
> statusbar and I got a result page, but that result page points to 
> incorrect links like:
> 
> 'file:///library/stats/html/ave.html'
> 
> Obviously, that link should have been something like:
> 
> 'file:///c:/Program%20Files/R/R-2.2.0/library/stats/html/ave.html'
> 
> Any idea why the first part of the link is missing in the result page? 
> On the same machine, using IE 6, it works like a charm (but I don't want 
> to use that damn IE!!!).
> 
>  > R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "i386-pc-mingw32"
> 
> $arch
> [1] "i386"
> 
> $os
> [1] "mingw32"
> 
> $system
> [1] "i386, mingw32"
> 
> $status
> [1] ""
> 
> $major
> [1] "2"
> 
> $minor
> [1] "2.0"
> 
> $year
> [1] "2005"
> 
> $month
> [1] "10"
> 
> $day
> [1] "06"
> 
> $"svn rev"
> [1] "35749"
> 
> $language
> [1] "R"
> 
> and in Firefox 1.5, about:plugins, retuns me:
> Installed plug-ins
> ...
> Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 4
> with a lot of corresponding extensions installed, including:
> 
> MIME Type               Description  Suffixes  Enabled
> application/x-java-vm   Java                   Yes
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Philippe Grosjean