[ESS] BUG: package-index conflicts with devtools
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 22:35:46 CEST 2014
That means that devtools overwrites some core help commands in R. A bit
worrisome :(
Vitalie
>>> Andreas Leha on Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:20:46 +0100 wrote:
> Hi Vitalie,
> [12 hours and not on the list/gmane. Resending this.]
> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
>> >>> Andreas Leha on Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:33:59 +0100 wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Vitalie,
>> > Thanks for looking into this and sorry for the long silence.
>>
>>
>> > Where am I supposed to do C-c ` ? I am doing this in the *help[R]*
>> > buffer and get a 'C-c ` is undefined'
>>
>> No, C-c ` is bound to ess-show-traceback in script and process buffers.
>>
>> > Could you please advise me further on what you want me to do?
>>
>> Just look at the traceback() and investigate where the error
>> occurred. It's most likely on devtools side. It's quite intrusive.
> [...]
> Here is the traceback:
> ,----
> | + Error in strsplit(topic, "::") : non-character argument
> |
> | ----------------------------------
> |
> | 3: strsplit(topic, "::")
> | 2: find_topic(e1_str)
> | 1: `?`(Matrix::updown)
> `----
>> From this, I tried directly
> ,----
> | > `?`(Matrix::updown)
> | Error in strsplit(topic, "::") : non-character argument
> `----
> So, this is indeed not an ess issue, but a devtools issue.
> I switched to the github version of devtools and the problem went away.
> Sorry for the noise and thanks for your patience.
> Best,
> Andreas
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