[ESS] Error: could not find function ".help.ESS"

[Berwin A Turlach]

G'day Worik,

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:58:26 +1200
Worik <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am getting the above error message  (in the subject field of this 
> email) when I try to use help in an R session in emacs.
> 
> I am running ubuntu 10.04, Emacs 23.1.1 and R version 2.10.1

Looks as if I have pretty much the same setting and I run into that
error too, regularly.

If you look closely at the ESS buffer after starting ESS, you will see
after the start up message the following (at least I see this):

R> .help.ESS <- help
R> options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')

The first line is where, and how, .help.ESS is defined and it resides
in your working space.  Some commands, e.g. rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)) will
delete .help.ESS, and it is after running such commands when I
experience the problem.  A simple

R> .help.ESS <- help

fixes the problem.

HTH.

Cheers,

	Berwin

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