On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jon Olav Vik wrote: > Today HTML help stopped working. The menu command "Help > Html help" usually > brings up my default web browser (Opera 9.26), but now R gives the error > Error: file association for 'doc\html\index.html' not available or invalid > If I try the same menu command a second time, R crashes with the message > > The instruction at "0x7c9106c3" referenced memory at "0x7c9f4302". The memory > could not be "written". > > The same problem occurs when calling help from the command line, e.g. with > ?license > > I'm running R 2.6.2 on Windows XP SP2. Googling for the error turns up > nothing, > and I have no idea where to look for further diagnosis. I have uninstalled, > deleted the R package directories, and checked the registry for metions of > "\R\", but the problem remains. I can't think of any unusual changes I made > before this problem arose.
Try re-setting the file association for .html files -- it looks as if it has been corrupted (not by R). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
