Hi Heramb,

No "Help(anova)" does not work either. Thanks for the suggestions. I put
the question out there in case anyone else was having similar problems. I
think I will throw in the towel and install the latest version of R to see
if that resolves the issue.

Thanks

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Heramb Gadgil <heramb.gadgil@gmail.com>wrote:

> Try this;
>
> help(anova)
>
> I have used this in R-2.14.1
>
> It has worked fine for me. Hope it works for you as well.
>
> Best,
> Heramb
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas@sapo.pt>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had a problem seeing the help pages with R 2.14.(0 or 1? I don't
>> remember) on Windows 7.
>> Then I realized that after a command like print, Rgui would first display
>> an error message saying that the temp directory used by help didn't exist.
>> The solution I've found was to manually create it whenever this happened.
>> And to issue a print statement after a missed ?function one. Apparently the
>> error message was waiting to be displayed somewhere.
>>
>> The problem was corrected with R 2.15.0 so I recommened you update your
>> installation of R.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Rui Barradas
>> Em 19-09-2012 19:19, Basil Iannone escreveu:
>>
>>  Dear R-help community,
>>>
>>> I am unable to access help files when using the typical
>>> "?function.of.interest" command.
>>>
>>> For example, if I type "?anova", Internet Explorer opens, but I am never
>>> connected to the usual page describing the nuances of the anova function.
>>>
>>> This is a new problem (just started occurring a few days ago). I am
>>> currently using R 2.14.1 on a Windows XP machine. As suggested by someone
>>> else on another list serve I have placed the session info below for a
>>> brief
>>> session where this occurred. NOTE: I am not trying to access any
>>> functions
>>> for libraries that are not active (for example, anova is in the default
>>> Stats package).
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue or any insights on why this
>>> may be occurring are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your
>>> help.
>>>
>>>  sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] tools_2.14.1
>>>
>>>
>>>
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