[R] html help not built

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/04/2010 11:19 AM, jgarcia at ija.csic.es wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
> I must be misunderstanding something. It is not that I want them built at
> installation time, but when I try to display the html help for any
> function the html page is not built; e.g. cliking on the link to get() in
> the base library, the message appears:
>
> An error occurred while loading
> file:///usr/local/lib64/R/library/base/html/get.html:
> The file or folder /usr/local/lib64/R/library/base/html/get.html does not
> exist.
>   

It sounds as though you have an old library that will need to be rebuilt 
to work with 2.10.1.  The link in the base page should be to something like

http://127.0.0.1:26057/library/base/html/get.html

(the port number will vary), not to

file:///usr/local/lib64/R/library/base/html/get.html

Duncan Murdoch


> Javier
> ---
>
>
> > On 07/04/2010 10:49 AM, jgarcia at ija.csic.es wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've just installed R 2.10.1 for linux, and html help has not been built
> >> (just the index page of each package but not the documentation for the
> >> individual functions in the packages.
> >>
> >> I cannot see any flag in the ./configure to set if html is going to be
> >> build.
> >>
> >> Please could you tell me what should I do to biuld html files?
> >
> > Why would you want to build them before displaying them?  There are a
> > few uses for that sort of thing (e.g. Jon Baron's site that RSiteSearch
> > looks at), but you have to realize that you won't get the same files as
> > would be displayed to a normal user, links won't necessarily work, etc.
> >
> > If you still want to do it, then just re-install all of your packages
> > with the "--html" option.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
>