[R-sig-Fedora] html manual files nonfunctional

[Tom Callaway]

On 01/26/2016 04:43 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> 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).

Please test:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-e623c6ffdd

~tom

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