> On 2018-10-17, at 22:29, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > > Ok, strange. I figured that there was some conflict/corruption in place with > R.app that was not immediately clear. > > Peter raised the possibility of a firewall issue, but I am curious as to why > that would affect the use of help in R.app, but not via other environments, > like the Mac Terminal app. Theoretically, it should be via similar protocols > and ports in each setting, unless there is something specific that R.app does > to the OS environment when running, that would inhibit the dynamic generation > of the HTML pages. But if so, why just for the two of you? > > It seems like the server is starting up ok, but the help pages are not being > generated by Rd2HTML() in R.app. > > However, it sparked a thought in my head, which is always risky, and that is, > do you guys have any anti-virus/malware software running? I may be grasping > at straws here, but such applications have been known to cause all kinds of > flaky behaviors, that are not immediately evident nor associated with them.
No firewall; no anti-virus or other malware software > > One other thought. When you get the blank HTML page, presumably white > background, drag the cursor around the page to try to highlight text, as if > the text was also white, thus not showing against the white background. > Another straw.... Nope. Blank is blank. No invisible text detected. > > Regards, > > Marc > <snip> _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
