[Rd] Code demos via HTML help gives an error

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 16/06/2015 4:20 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> PROBLEM:
> I'm getting error:
> 
> Error in order(matches$Position) : argument 1 is not a vector
> 
> Whenever I try to access a package's "Code demos" page via the link on
> the package HTML index page.
> 
> 
> SOME TROUBLESHOOTING:
> Looking at for instance the 'stats' package.  The "Code demos" URL
> takes the form
> 
>  http://127.0.0.1:30200/library/stats/demo
> 
> Click on this, takes me to
> 
>  http://127.0.0.1:30200/doc/html/Search?package=stats&agrep=FALSE&types=demo
> 
> 
> WHERE:
> I see this on R devel (2015-06-15 r68521) and R 3.2.1 RC (2015-06-14
> r68516) - both on Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit).  Haven't
> checked other platforms.
> 
> 
> Regarding the imminent release of R 3.2.1; Sorry, I rarely use demos,
> so it's only in this very moment I noticed.
> 

A fix won't make it into 3.2.1, but I will try to fix it in
3.2.1-patched, which will become 3.2.2 eventually, unless I forget.
Could I ask you to post a bug report about it if you don't hear that
it's fixed in a few days?

Duncan Murdoch