[R-sig-Fedora] html manual files nonfunctional

joe cypherpunk jcyph3r at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 17:34:17 CET 2016


HTML manuals are working fine with your updated version.  That seems to
have fixed it.  Thanks for the quick work!



On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> ==
> Red Hat
>

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