Full_Name: Greg Kochanski Version: 2.2.0 OS: Debian Linux on i686 Submission from: (NULL) (212.159.16.190)
Debian packages the R documentation separately from the R core code. Consequently, it is possible for people to have R without the HTML documentation. (In fact, the docs are not installed by default, so it's very likely.) Thus, help.start() cannot depend on the HTML documentation being there. It should check for one (or a few) files and produce some reasonable error message if it is not there. Maybe something like "Warning: the HTML documentation is not installed." Alternatively, help.start() could produce references to some on-line HTML documentation, instead of local documentation. A related bug is that if one calls help.start() when the HTML documentation does not exist, all future calls to help() will lead to errors. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
