[R] help.search("plot")

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Mar 28 11:49:59 CEST 2006


It means you have a package installed with corrupt metadata.

R 2.0.1 is 18 months old, and the problem has been worked around long 
since.  Please upgrade, as the posting guide asked you to do (before 
posting).


On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Airoldi Jean-Pierre wrote:

> Dear List-Members,
>
> When typing the command:
>
> > help.search("plot")
>
> in Version R2.0.1, I get the following message
>
> Error in rbind(...) : number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 2)
>
> which does not make much sense to me.
>
> I remember that some time ago I would get the information expected. I do
> not know what happened in the mean time.
>
> Any ideas about the problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Jean-Pierre Airoldi
>
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