[R] help.start() has a faulty link

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Sorry, I forgot to include sessionInfo. It's R 3.1.1 on Windows 7.
As for the vignette PDFs, you're right, they are missing. I always use 
the default installation of the R for Windows binary file, shouldn't 
they also be installed?

sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 
LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C 

[5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.1.1


Rui Barradas

Em 31-08-2014 17:19, Prof Brian Ripley escreveu:
> On 31/08/2014 12:31, Rui Barradas wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> With 'help.start()' an HTML browser interface to help pops up.
>> In the section 'Miscellaneous Material' if you click on 'User Manuals'
>> an error occurs:
>>
>> Error in vignettes[i, "PDF"] : subscript out of bounds
>>
>> Is this a bug? A missing link?
>
> We have very little idea: you have not told us the 'at a minumum'
> information required in the posting guide.
>
> But it works for me in R 3.1.1: most likely there is a bug in the way
> you installed R (whatever that was ...).  For example, maybe you did not
> install the vignette PDFs ....
>
>>
>> Rui Barradas
>>
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