[Rd] httpd error with and help_type = 'html', package = NULL

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 23/04/2013 9:07 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Is this not PR#15282?  No one has got to it yet.

Fixed now in R-devel; just testing R-patched.

Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 23/04/2013 07:32, Michael Nelson wrote:
> > Having loaded a package that masks an object from another package, calling
> >
> >
> > help(conflictedname, help_type = 'html')
> >
> >
> > instead of producing a page giving the choices of help page available
> >
> > The page produced is
> >
> > Error in httpd("/library/NULL/help/nobs", NULL, NULL, c(48, 6f, 73, 74,  :
> >    replacement has length zero
> >
> >
> > This example is reproduced using
> >
> > library(gdata)
> > help(nobs, help_type = 'html')
> >
> >
> >
> > sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
> > Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                       LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] gdata_2.12.0.2
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] gtools_2.7.1 tools_3.0.0
> >
> >
> > There are no issues when using help_type = 'pdf' or help_type = 'text'
> >
> >
> > Michael
> >
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