[R-sig-Debian] HTML help files missing for some packages

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Paul

$ sudo apt-file search /usr/lib/R/library/base/html/00Index.html

tells me that this file is in r-base-html.

do you have that package installed? r-base recommends r-base-html, but it does 
not depend on it.

Installing recommended packages is the default on Debian systems, in contrast 
to suggested packages. You can check what you have using

$ apt-config dump | grep Recommends
APT::Install-Recommends "1";

Kind regards,

Johannes


Am Freitag, 29. Mai 2020, 05:51:06 CEST schrieb Paul Dunmore:
> After a clean install of R 4.0.0 (R-base only) on Mint 19.3, the
> directory /usr/lib/R/library/base/html is empty. However, the directory
> /usr/lib/R/library/boot/html contains files 00Index.html and R.css.
> 
> Correspondingly, the command help(package="base", help_type="html")
> produces the text "No package index found for package base". The same
> occurs when clicking on the "Index" link at the bottom of help pages for
> functions in this package. The command help(package="boot",
> help_type="html") displays the documentation index for the boot package,
> as expected.
> 
> The 00Index.html and R.css files are missing also for the compiler,
> datasets, graphics, grDevices, grid, methods, parallel, splines, stats,
> stats4, tcltk, tools, utils packages, but are present for all other
> packages in the base distribution.
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this, or is it some peculiarity of my setup or
> of Linux Mint?
> 
> Cheers, Paul
> 
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