[R] Firefox not showing R help.

[Rolf Turner]

Firefox recently updated itself on my laptop.  Now when I ask for R help 
--- e.g. ?plot --- I just get my home page. And no help. If I do "?plot" 
again after Firefox has opened its window, I just get yet another 
Firefox window, opened to my home page.  (I have my preferences set to

     "When Firefox starts Show my homepage"

--- as I always have had in the past.)

The Firefox that I am currently running is (according Firefox help
--> "About Firefox") is version 36.0.

Can anyone suggest to me how I can get my html R help back?

For what it's worth:  I am using Linux, Fedora 17.  (Yes, I know it's 
elderly, but then so am I. :-) )

Also in case it has any relevance:

>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.utf8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.utf8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.utf8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] spatstat_1.40-0.064 misc_0.0-16
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] abind_1.4-0     deldir_0.1-7    goftest_1.0-2   grid_3.1.2
>  [5] lattice_0.20-29 Matrix_1.1-4    mgcv_1.8-3      nlme_3.1-118
>  [9] polyclip_1.3-1  tensor_1.5      tools_3.1.2

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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Rolf Turner
Technical Editor ANZJS
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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