[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu html help pages missing

[Balasubramanian Narasimhan]

Aha! Roger.   Having always built R from scratch, I missed this. Thanks.

-Naras

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Hi Naras,
>
> On 19 June 2008 at 14:14, Balasubramanian Narasimhan wrote:
> | I don't see any way to install the html help pages for R version 2.7.x 
> | or 2.6.2 on Ubuntu (Hardy)  without rebuilding.  I don't use html 
> | myself, but there is a problem when someone else does:
> | 
> | ?lm  ## help works
> | help.start()   ## fires up browser
> | ?lm  ## no longer works becuase it is looking for (missing) html help 
> | pages to show in browser
> | 
> | I searched for r-doc packages but could not find anything.  Am I 
> | overlooking anything?
>
> Quite possibly. These three contain the manuals [1]:
>
> edd at ron:~$ wajig search r-doc- | grep "^r-doc"
> r-doc-html - GNU R html manuals for statistical computing system
> r-doc-info - GNU R info manuals statistical computing system
> r-doc-pdf - GNU R pdf manuals for statistical computing system
>
> whereas these two contain the extra docs from R's 'base' section.
> edd at ron:~$ wajig search r-base- | grep doc
> r-base-html - GNU R html docs for statistical computing system functions
> r-base-latex - GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical computing system functions
>
> Installing just 'r-base' should give you everything just like, say, R on
> 'doze.  Seems like you found the rope to hang yourself: r-base-core  ;-)
>
> Say Hi to Russ Albery for me. I hear they provide R on Ubuntu centrally for
> you guys now which is tres cool.
>
> Dirk
>
> [1] wajig is a very useful  wrapper around dpkg, apt-*, aptitude, dselect, ... 
> Highly recommended. It's author even turned from Python to R.
>
>