[R] hetlp_type text doen't work on Ubuntu

[Ben Bolker]

Amol Jadhav <amolj.1306 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Don't know the internals behind, but when I did this:
> > help.search('qplot', rebuild=T)
> the text help started working. It would be interesting to know why it
> worked that way. Also if it is happens always, it should have been
> documented somewhere -- so that new users (who needs help) will not
> get disappointed [I was using R without help until i found about
> option(help_type='html')].
> 
> Anyway, i'm glad that it started working.


  I'm glad it started working too, but it seems extremely likely
that your problem was specific to your system. R's help system does
normally work fine "out of the box" -- there are thousands of Ubuntu
users, and none that I'm aware of has ever reported this particular 
problem before.

   Ben Bolker