[R] HTML help problems with windows R-0.65.0

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 Denisfitz at aol.com wrote:

> at the first invocation of rgui for R-0.65.0 under win95 the following 
> occurred:
> ...snip
> Version 0.65.0  (August 27, 1999)
> ...snip
> > link.html.help()

[not needed, I think]
> > options(htmlhelp=T)
> > help.start()
[not needed]
> If nothing happens, you have to open ` F:\RW0650\doc\html\index.html ' 
> yourself
> /* browser open with index as aprropriate */
> > help(plot)
> Error: 3 arguments passed to "show.help.item" which requires 1.
> 
> 
> any ideas?

Yes. As the announcement said, this is a preliminary release and has been 
checked less thoroughly than usual.

Thank you for the report. A fixed version (the DLL needs to be rebuilt)
will be up tomorrow.  For now, use text help (we do).

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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