[R] Cannot Launch R Help Files under Window 8.1

Jack H. Pincus jack.pincus at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 26 14:53:08 CEST 2014


Thanks for your suggestions.  I did some further digging and found the problem was more subtle. I use Dashlane, a password management program, which requires IE to run in protected mode under Win 8. Disabling protected mode solved the problem with R help.

Jack

> On May 26, 2014, at 12:02 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us> wrote:
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> Java should be unrelated to this. One potential issue might be that installing help is an option that you may not have selected when installing R. Another thought is that there may be some anti virus software that is blocking the R help server.
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>> On May 25, 2014 4:18:25 PM PDT, Jack Pincus <jack.pincus at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I've been using R for about 9 months and just installed R 3.1.0 on a
>> new computer running Windows 8.1.� IE is the default browser.� When I
>> type help(round) or ?round �the address:
>> http://127.0.0.1:25976/library/base/html/Round.html�appears in IE but I
>> get a message saying the page cannot be displayed.�Java 7 is installed
>> on my computer.� I did a Google search but didn't find any solutions.�
>> How can I get the help pages to display?
>> 
>> Jack
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