[R-gui] ghelp() and ghelpbrowser() under R 2.10.1

[Yihui Xie]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if ghelp() really works under R 2.10.1. I tried it under
Windows but it does not work...

> library(gWidgets)
> ghelpbrowser()
Select a GUI toolkit

1: gWidgetsRGtk2
2: gWidgetsrJava
3: gWidgetstcltk
4: gWidgetsWWW

Selection: 1
Loading required package: gWidgetsRGtk2
guiWidget of type: gHelpbrowserRGtk for toolkit: guiWidgetsToolkitRGtk2
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "r") :
  cannot open compressed file '', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
> traceback()
5: gzfile(file, "r")
4: read.dcf(system.file("CONTENTS", package = package))
3: getContentsOfPackage(package)
2: handler(...)
1: function (...)
   {
       val <- handler(...)
       if (!is.logical(val))
           return(TRUE)
       else return(val)
   }(list(obj = <S4 object of class "gGridRGtk">), <pointer: 0x026dd248>,
       <pointer: 0x02781fd8>, <pointer: 0x01ae3940>)

> obj <- ghelp(container=TRUE)
>        add(obj,"base:::mean")
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "r") :
  cannot open file 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/library/base/help/mean': No such
file or directory

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936
LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936
[3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-64 gWidgets_0.0-40      animation_1.1-2
MASS_7.3-5

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] RGtk2_2.12.18 tools_2.10.1

Regards,
Yihui
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