[R-SIG-Mac] 2.10.0 beta help functions

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Oct 16 19:18:27 CEST 2009


Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Both the installer issues as well as the help should be fixed. Please  
> try tonight's builds [tomorrow].
>   

Both problems (help system and 32 bit cpu detection) appear to be fixed 
as of

R version 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-15 r50107)
R.app GUI 1.30-devel (5506 Leopard build 32-bit)

Duncan Murdoch
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 19:19 , 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, 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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