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

Worik worik.stanton at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 03:23:52 CEST 2010


On 11/08/10 12:49, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> G'day Worik,
>
>    
[snip]
> 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.
>    

Bingo!  Thanks for that.

Worik
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