[R-SIG-Mac] 2.10.0 beta help functions

[Peter Cowan]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> 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)

With

R version 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-15 r50107)
R.app GUI 1.30 (5506) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

I can confirm that the help problem I reported (using ? and help())
are now fixed.

However, the GUI help interfaces -- text fields at the top of the
console and the top of the help window, do not seem to work.  The help
window gains (or keeps) focus but the help page is not updated.

Thank you for the quick update, I'll continue to poke around the help system.

Peter

> 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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