[R] No "doc" directory in my installation of R.

[Duncan Murdoch]

Jeff pointed out where the doc directory is installed in Ubuntu: 
/usr/share/R/doc.  So this is definitely an RStudio issue:  perhaps it 
got "tweaked", or perhaps Rolf installed a version meant for some other 
distribution.  In either case, off-topic in R-help, I think.

Duncan Murdoch

On 08/08/2021 8:51 a.m., John Kane wrote:
> R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
> RStudio 1.4.1714
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
> 
> I do not see a doc folder at R level but a lot of newer packages,
> probably tidyverse derived seem to have a doc sub-folder containing
> documentation files
> 
> For example corrplot has a doc subfolder containing
> corrplot-intro.html
> corrplot-intro.R
> corrplot-intro.Rmd
> index.html
> 
> Jim Lemon's suggestion seems worth trying but I really think this is
> some RStudio weirdity. I have been using RStudio for 3-4 years and a
> several complete installations on new machines and tave never seen
> anything like "R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found".
> 
> RStudio keeps getting tweaked.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2021 at 00:30, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rolf,
>> What about:
>>
>> mkdir /usr/lib/R/doc
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 12:45 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner using auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Should/shouldn't there be one?
>>>
>>> My R seems to be installed in /usr/lib/R.  If do an "ls" of this
>>> directory, I get:
>>>
>>>> bin/  COPYING@        etc/  lib/  library/  modules/
>>>> site-library/  SVN-REVISION
>>>
>>> Definitely no "doc".
>>>
>>> The (only) reason that I am concerned about this, is that I have decided
>>> to experiment a bit with Rstudio, and it apparently wants a "doc"
>>> directory.  When I try to start Rstudio I get a pop-up window with the
>>> error message
>>>
>>>> R doc dir (/usr/local/lib64/R/doc) not found.
>>>
>>> Note that /usr/local/lib64/R is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/R.
>>> The latter is where my installation put R; the former seems to be where
>>> Rstudio wants it to.  So I created the symbolic link.
>>>
>>> The discrepancy between locations is another puzzle/worry.
>>>
>>> My installation comes from a pre-built binary ("sudo apt install
>>> r-base").  I apparently have the latest version.  I remark that I am
>>> running Ubuntu 20.04 with a Mate 1.20.4 desktop.
>>>
>>> How can I get a "doc" directory into my R directory and make Rstudio
>>> happy?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Rolf Turner
>>>
>>> P.S. I have also tried to ask about this on the  Rstudio community
>>> forum, but it seems to me to more of an R question than an Rstudio one.
>>>
>>> R. T.
>>>
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