[R-sig-Fedora] html manual files nonfunctional

[Tom Callaway]

On 01/21/2016 10:38 AM, joe cypherpunk wrote:
> R help.start() opens a web browser as expected, but the “Manual” html links
> are dead (although the “Reference” and “Miscellaneous Materials” html links
> do work).  I get a similar problem from within RStudio.
> 
> 
> I’d like to get pointy-clicky html manuals working, to help migrate users
> from SAS to R.
> 
> 
> I do see R manuals on this system from the EPEL R rpm's in info and pdf
> form, for example at /usr/share/info/R-intro.gz and
> /usr/share/doc/R-3.2.3/manual/R-intro-pdf
> 
> 
> I’m running R-3.2.3, installed from EPEL rpm’s on RHEL6.7.

I see this. This is a consequence of R requiring texinfo 5.1 or newer
and RHEL6 having texinfo 4.1. I'll bundle in pre-built manuals for those
cases (RHEL 5 and 6 only).

~tom

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