missing help browser on OS X

[meik michalke]

hi,

Am Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2016, 21:56:48 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> > 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?

no, i meant that by "a link from the help search" ;-)

> What if you do
>   x <- options (browser="firefox")
> can you open help pages, there?

no, but i think we're onto something here. i set browser to 
"/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari", which successfully started 
that browser, but the URL that was requested was pretty obscure:
 file:///Applications/RKWard/http:/127.0.0.1:17171/library/base/html/ls.html
looks like RKWard prefixed the value with a path to its own app directory. 
when i removed the file:// stuff, the help page was shown.

so, why does the bundled RKWard add this prefix and the locally build one 
doesn't?


viele grüße :: m.eik

-- 
  dipl. psych. meik michalke
  institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
  abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
  heinrich-heine-universit"at d-40204 d"usseldorf
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