[Rd] Code demos via HTML help gives an error

Henrik Bengtsson henrik.bengtsson at ucsf.edu
Wed Jun 17 14:30:06 CEST 2015


Went ahead and did it directly, cf. PR #16432
(https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16432).  /H

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>



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