[R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?

[Ivailo Stoyanov]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
[snip]
>> AFAIK, the approach of running R from within the build location is 
>> fully valid as it is noted at the end of section "2.1 Simple 
>> compilation", just above the cited one:
>>   
> Yes, but then it is not "actually installed".
[snip]
>> "... Note: you do not need to install R: you can run it from where it 
>> was built."
>>   
> You can, but note that it doesn't say that you can move the build 
> location afterwards, and in fact, you can not, because of the 
> non-relative pathnames.

Actually, I have used R for a long time without any (apparent) problems 
being "installed" this way. I just changed the mentioned variables 
manually, and everything was running just fine -- until I needed to 
check the HTML help recently. Therefore I thought that I've missed to 
fix some config-file in an analogous maner to solve the problem with the 
script that wasn't found by the system.

I assume that I have to recompile (something that I was hoping to avoid 
due to the rather decent system I use currently) to get this issue 
fixed. Am I right?