[ESS] BUG: package-index conflicts with devtools
Andreas Leha
andreas.leha at med.uni-goettingen.de
Wed Jul 23 22:52:00 CEST 2014
Hi Vitalie,
Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
> That means that devtools overwrites some core help commands in R. A bit
> worrisome :(
Indeed. I did see some messages '? masked' during the loading of
devtools. Since the update they are gone.
Regards,
Andreas
>
> 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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