[Rd] error in help.search (PR#14113)

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Dec 5 17:24:25 CET 2009


On 04/12/2009 5:40 PM, dgrove at fhcrc.org wrote:
> Full_Name: Doug Grove
> Version: 2.10.0   10-26-2009
> OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> Submission from: (NULL) (140.107.164.65)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Looks like the revisions to help.search didn't get completely finished.
> 
> When the user specifies the argument 'package' the code doesn't define the
> variable 'paths' prior to trying to use it, which obviously produces an error.

That was a typo:  it should have been looking at package_paths, not paths.

> 
> The code dies when it reaches the line: 
>    tot <- length(paths)
> 
> Just search on any string and specify and package and you'll get the error.

Will fix.

Duncan Murdoch



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