help() seems the ONLY operation that's slow, Windows Task Manager doesn't show anything intensive going on, other programs running normally - it's as though a timer is set that diverts the request for a minute. 

links within the help pages come up quickly, only the requests from the console. 

...i suppose rebuilding R is worth a try...i'm running 
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 


Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kane" <jrkrideau@inbox.com> 
To: ldecola@comcast.net, r-help@r-project.org 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:45:01 AM 
Subject: RE: [R] help server slow 

It sounds like a local system problem. Are you running on a local intranet or have something cpu intenstive running in the background? 

John Kane 
Kingston ON Canada 


> -----Original Message----- 
> From: ldecola@comcast.net 
> Sent: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:05:19 +0000 (UTC) 
> To: r-help@r-project.org 
> Subject: [R] help server slow 
> 
> suddenly a few days ago it takes about a minute for local help to come up 
> . 
> 
> i type : 
> ?hist 
> 
> and get 
> starting httpd help server ... done 
> 
> but only after a minute does 
> http://127.0.0.1:15686/library/graphics/html/hist.html 
> appear . 
> 
> 
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