[R] Window help files on networked drives may not be visible
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Dec 18 13:21:40 CET 2006
Now R 2.4.x defaults to CHM help, you may encounter a problem with a
fairly recent Windows security patch described in
http://www.helpscribble.com/chmnetwork.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358
This may apply if you have R itself or some library on a networked drive
or share. Apart from the workarounds described in those URLs, there is an
R-specific workaround: delete the pkgname/chtml folders in network-mounted
libraries (when R will revert to text help for those packages), or
customize the startup and select one of the other help options.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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