[Rd] (PR#8144) Error report upon using the help.search( ) command

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please do not send a bug report on an obselete version of R.  2.1.1 is 
current and 2.2.0 is in alpha-testing.  (This is covered in the posting 
guide and the FAQ.)

It has been the case that a broken package DESCRIPTION could cause this, 
but as the comment on PR#8144 says, that has already been fixed.

If you use R's debugging tools you can find out which package is causing 
the problem and remove it.


On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 paltr at bio.uio.no wrote:

> Full_Name: Pål Trosvik
> Version: 2.0.1
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.240.91.220)
>
>
> Hi
>
> Upon entering the command: help.search("linear") .I get the following error
> report:
> Error in rbind(...) : number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 8)
>
> I get the same error message whichever search term I enter between the quotation
> marks. This function was working fine just a few weeks ago, and in the mean time
> I haven't done anything unusual. All I have done is download a few packages from
> CRAN, namely 'pls' and 'splines', as well as 'gplots','gtools' and 'gdata'. I
> have no idea what is causing this problem, but I guess it might be a bug.
>
> I shold perhaps mention that I saw an almost identical bug report entered in the
> 'not-repoducible' directory of previous bug reports by one Sabyasaschi Ray on
> 020805.

2002-08-05 or 2005-08-05 or what?

> His problem remains unsolved.

I don't think so. If this is PR#8044, please do read the comment:

   No R version given, not reproducible.
   This is probably due to a broken package, and if so already fixed.
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