[R] R help unavailable

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03/03/2010 6:39 AM, mauede at alice.it wrote:
> I have recently replaced R-2.9.0 with R-2.10.1 Patched. Apparently the installation completed successfully 
> but right now I realized that the on-line help does not work any more.
> When I type "?<R-command>" a message pops up warning that "Help will not be available. Path not found" ... regardless of the R-command. 
> How can I get back R on-line man pages ?

You could switch to text-based help by editing RHOME/etc/Rprofile.site 
or your personal Rprofile, but you probably want to fix the bigger 
problem, which is that your system can't open the URLs that R is giving 
it.  Can you open any URL?  E.g. does 
browseURL("http://www.r-project.org")  open that web page?  If not, the 
problem is that your system doesn't know how to open a browser.

Duncan Murdoch


> Thank you very much,
> Maura
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> tutti i telefonini TIM!
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