Strange enough; I just noticed the HTML index pages of several base packages were gone (e.g. base, stats, tools, utils) under Ubuntu. Not sure if this is a problem of Debian packages or R itself.
> sessionInfo() R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/07/2012 1:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> In ?Sweave, it refers to Sweave User Manual. In the doc folder of >> utils package, I see "Sweave.pdf". >> >> However, I can't find it from within R >> >> >> > vignette("Sweave User Manual") >> Warning message: >> vignette ‘Sweave User Manual’ not found >> >> >> > browseVignettes("utils") >> No vignettes found by browseVignettes("utils") >> >> >> > library(help=utils) >> >> does not refer to any vignettes. >> >> The vignette does not appear in the main page for utils in help.start(). >> >> I checked the source code for the Sweave vignette, but I don't see >> anything wrong. It has all of the required elements: >> >> %\VignetteIndexEntry{Sweave User Manual} >> %\VignettePackage{utils} >> %\VignetteDepends{tools} >> %\VignetteDepends{datasets} >> %\VignetteDepends{stats} >> >> Am I accessing it incorrectly, or is there something wrong in my >> install of R-2.15.1? > > > The vignette name is "Sweave", so you should see it when you say > > vignette("Sweave") > > but you should also have seen it in > > browseVignettes("utils") > > and > > library(help=utils) > > and the page for utils in the HTML help. So it looks as though something is > wrong in your install. I do see it in 2.15.1 patched on Windows. > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> >> > sessionInfo() >> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] tools_2.15.1 > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
