[Rd] problem with library() (or possibly grid) in r-devel

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:

> In recent r-devels, I have
> 
> > library(help = grid)
> Error in formatDL(entry, style = "list") : 
> 	incorrect value for x
> 
> This doesn't happen for the other packages I have tried, so maybe this is a 
> problem with grid.

grid has a pdf file in inst/doc. but it's not a vignette.  So

> print(.readRDS("library/grid/Meta/vignette.rds"))
[1] File     Title    Depends  Keywords PDF     
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

The code in library() does not seem to be able to cope with that case.

BDR

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