[R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled

Rolf Turner rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz
Sat Jul 16 02:14:21 CEST 2011


I can verify that I get exactly the same error (also R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu).
No idea what to *do* about it, though. :-(

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner

On 16/07/11 11:25, Yihui Xie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed this problem ever since R changed its static HTML help
> pages to dynamic help pages: when I reinstall a package and try to
> view any help page of this package, I always get this error (in the
> terminal or html page)
>
> Error in fetch(key) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1
>
> As a package developer, I often have to reinstall a package again and
> again, so I wish I do not have to restart R to see the new
> documentation. Anybody ever met a similar situation and has an idea?
> Thanks!
>
> I use R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu, and it also appears in Windows 7.



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