[R-SIG-Mac] 2.10.0 beta help functions

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 15, 2009, at 16:01 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Hmm, I think you probably have pre-built html pages.

Yes, that's likely. They used to be part of the installation but now  
are not. The fact that they are missing was useful to point out that I  
forgot to switch R.app from html to dynamic help (fixed now), but I  
was actually planning on keeping them installed for other software  
that relies on it (e.g. JGR). That will give those packages the chance  
to update until R 2.11.0.

Thanks,
Simon


>  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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