missing help browser on OS X

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 21:45:13 +0200
meik michalke <meik.michalke at uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2016, 21:27:57 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> > What about the output window?
> 
> works fine.
> 
> > The two are essentially based on the same code. What happens when
> > trying to browse some other (preferrably fail-safe) URL? E.g.
> >   browseURL("file:///some/local/file.html")
> 
> also works. the empty tab is only shown for R manual pages. it
> doesn't matter if i use ?ls or help("ls") or a link from the help
> search. feels like R doesn't start its internal http server or fails
> to communicate, but the R installation remains untouched.

Ok. What about the "Help Search" window? Can you open help pages from
there?

What if you do
  x <- options (browser="firefox")
can you open help pages, there? And then, if you revert using
  options (browser=x$browser)
can you open the URL loaded in firefox using
  browseURL ("whatever")
?

I believe it should be possible to "reload" by changing View->Default
Encoding. Does that help?

> > Since 0.6.4 we no longer use KHTMLPart, but QtWebKit, so that comes
> > to mind as a related (somewhat) recent change.
> 
> the bundle does include
>  /opt/rkward/libexec/qt4/Library/Frameworks/QtWebKit.framework

Given the above, this can't be the culprit.

Regards
Thomas
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