On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Ernst wrote:
>
> We are having difficulty getting the help files for the MASS libraries
> to work. This is probably due to the fact that our sys admin is
> unfamiliar with S+ and I am not well versed in system administration.
> We are using S+ 5.1 on Solaris 2.7, but we are having the same problem
> on SGI.
>
> Specifically, after we run the installation and move the directories
> (MASS, nnet, etc...) into the $SHOME/library/ directory, we can attach
> these libraries in S+, but cannot access the help files:
>
> > library(MASS)
> > help(rlm)
> /opt/local/src/splus/s-plus5.1/cmd/sgml_help:
> /opt/local/src/splus/s-plus5.1/library/MASS/.Data//__Hhelp/rlm.html:
> cannot create
> Alert!: Unable to access document.
> lynx: Can't access startfile
> file://localhost/opt/local/src/splus/s-plus5.1/library/MASS/.Data//__Hhelp/rlm.html
>
> The directory $SHOME/library/MASS/.Data//__Hhelp/ is empty. Now I
> understand that it is trying to create the html help file in this
> directory on the fly and that we can solve this problem by giving
> everyone write access to this directory, but my sys admin is rightfully
> reluctant to do this. My question to those of you who have done this
> successfully is this: Were those html files supposed to be created
> during installation (like in the standard S+ libraries)? If so, what
> did we most likely miss? If not, is there a way to create them all now?
You do need to give that directory write access or to create the files
yourself by running Splus CATHELP_SGML .Data in the MASS directory.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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