[R-sig-Fedora] R_DOC_DIR on EL6

[Martyn Plummer]

On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 17:55 +0200, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 09/16/2016 10:28 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> > > 
> > > Where are the R docs located on EL6? It seems neither
> > > R.home("doc")
> > > nor Sys.getenv("R_DOC_DIR") exists?
> > 
> > /usr/share/doc/R-3.3.1
> > 
> 
> Can we set this in R_DOC_DIR accordingly so that it can be
> programmatically found?

R_DOC_DIR is set in the shell script /usr/bin/R that launches R. For a
default build of R it is ${R_HOME_DIR}/doc but the configure script
that builds R in the Fedora spec file resets it using the variable
rdocdir as described in the R-admin manual.

Martyn

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