[R-SIG-Mac] 2.10.0 beta help functions

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Hmm, I think you probably have pre-built html pages.  I simply don't 
see any code that will generate them, either directly or by starting 
the httpd server to do so.

I just did some quick experiments, and I get blank pages on packages 
without pre-built html, and correct ones on a package I just installed 
with 'R CMD INSTALL --html'.

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Rob Goedman wrote:

> Peter,
>
> On my system (SnowLeopard, below R builds) I did see the warning
> messages (but the internal help worked fine).
>
> This morning I changed the htmlhelp settings as suggested by the
> warning message ( help_type ='html' ) in main.m and rebuild R.app. The
> warnings are gone and help still works.
>
> Rob
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> R version 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-15 r50083)
> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> ...
>
> [R.app GUI 1.30 (5495) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>
> [Workspace restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.RData]
>
> > ?ls
> Warning message:
> In help("ls", package = NULL) :
>   htmhelp = TRUE is deprecated: use help_type ="html"
> >
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Peter Cowan wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed the nightly from r.research.att.com called "R 2.10.0
>>> beta (2009-10-13)" for leopard using the pkg installer.
>>>
>>> When I use ?plot or help(plot) the help window opens, but is blank.
>>> And, I get this warning:
>>>
>>>> ?plot
>>> Warning message:
>>> In help("plot", package = NULL) :
>>> htmhelp = TRUE is deprecated: use help_type ="html"
>>>
>>> I know the help system has changed significantly in 2.10.0 and I
>>> apologize if it is poor form to report errors such as this while the
>>> still in the beta phase,
>>
>> To the contrary! The whole point of the beta phase is that it gets
>> tested and all errors reported -- I'll look into this, thanks for
>> the report.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>> but my reliance on these help functions has
>>> prevented me from continuing to use the beta and test other changes.
>>>
>>> BTW thank you for the option, in the new installer, to only install
>>> the 64bit GUI version.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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