[R] help pages do not open

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Dimitri,

The help pages should be loaded from a local server (which is
corroborated by the 127...ip), so the internet connection should not
matter.

I would check whether IE is the default application for .html
extensions, and you could also try running R as an admin (though I do
not really think that should matter here).

Cheers,

Josh

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried one more thing - I uninstalled R again, and this time
> installed it under:
> C:\Users\Myname\R\R-2.12.0
> And again - am gettting the same error:
> Error in shell.exec(url) :
>  access to 'http://127.0.0.1:30111/library/stats/html/lm.html' denied
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> Dimitri
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
> <dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have just installed R-2.12
>> I have Windows 7, 64-bit verison.
>> I currently have IE as my default browser. The internet connection is very good.
>>
>> Whenever I try to run a help command (?lm, for example), I get this error:
>> Error in shell.exec(url) : access to
>> 'http://127.0.0.1:20271/library/stats/html/lm.html' denied
>>
>> I first got this message when Google Chrome was my default browser.
>> For some reason, Google Chrome stopped opening web pages. At the same
>> time R11 stopped showing help pages. Then, I uninstalled Google Chrome
>> and defined IE as my default browser. Then, I uninstalled R11 and
>> installed R12 instead. But I am getting the same error.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dimitri Liakhovitski
>> Ninah Consulting
>> www.ninah.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
> Ninah Consulting
> www.ninah.com
>
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Joshua Wiley
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