[R] issue accessing help files

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

I had a problem seeing the help pages with R 2.14.(0 or 1? I don't 
remember) on Windows 7.
Then I realized that after a command like print, Rgui would first 
display an error message saying that the temp directory used by help 
didn't exist. The solution I've found was to manually create it whenever 
this happened. And to issue a print statement after a missed ?function 
one. Apparently the error message was waiting to be displayed somewhere.

The problem was corrected with R 2.15.0 so I recommened you update your 
installation of R.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 19-09-2012 19:19, Basil Iannone escreveu:
> Dear R-help community,
>
> I am unable to access help files when using the typical
> "?function.of.interest" command.
>
> For example, if I type "?anova", Internet Explorer opens, but I am never
> connected to the usual page describing the nuances of the anova function.
>
> This is a new problem (just started occurring a few days ago). I am
> currently using R 2.14.1 on a Windows XP machine. As suggested by someone
> else on another list serve I have placed the session info below for a brief
> session where this occurred. NOTE: I am not trying to access any functions
> for libraries that are not active (for example, anova is in the default
> Stats package).
>
> Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue or any insights on why this
> may be occurring are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.1
>
>