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

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 02:33:39 CEST 2011


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> 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. :-(
>
You could check if text help works:

options(help_type = "text")
?by

or

help("by", help_type = "text")

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