Why is Documentation Missing When Installed Locally?

I have the documentation installed locally, but I just noticed that doc can't find the documenation for the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox. When I try to access the doc for that toolbox the doc browswer (2024a) just shows Page Not Found. I didn't try to access the doc for every toolbox, but did try some others, including some for which I don't have a license, and found no other problems. Any ideas what's going on? Do I just need to rerun the process to install the doc locally?

[Jaimin]

Could you please provide information on which operating system MATLAB is installed?

Answer 1

[Jaimin]

Hi @Paul

Please refer to the following MathWorks documentation for instructions on installing the documentation locally.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/install/ug/install-documentation-on-offline-machines.html

If you are still encountering a "page not found" error, please follow these steps:

1. Open the “startup.m” file in MATLAB.
2. Execute the following command in the Command Window: “matlabshared.supportpkg.getSupportPackageRoot”, and copy the resulting path.
3. Update the following command with the copied path: “docroot('<COPIED_PATH>\help')” and copy this command to "startup.m" file.
4. Restart MATLAB.

If the issue persists, I recommend updating MATLAB.

I hope this will be helpful.

[Paul]

I actually use: Install Documentation for Temporary Offline Use, but the idea is the same.

I was able to find the folder where all of the Stats toolbox help files were located and saw that about 1/2 were missing. Not sure how that happened. So I reinstalled the doc locally and now it apears that all of the Stats toolbox files are there. Don't know if I really got all of the doc for all of the toolboxes, but at least now I know how to check if I run into problems in the future.

Thanks.