[R] Error running help.search("keywords")

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/06/2015 6:42 AM, Yo Gmail wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When running help.search(“linear algebra”) or any other valid search keyword the following error is being returned:
>
> Error in help(db[i, "topic"], package = db[i, "Package"], lib.loc = lib,  :
>    'topic' should be a name, length-one character vector or reserved word
>
> I have not installed the optional packages neither Tcl/Tk nor Texinfo.
>
> Any ideas what the error could be, what can I do to fix it?

It's probably just your email, but R won't understand "smart quotes" 
like you use above.  But if you tried that, you'd get a different error:

 > help.search(“linear algebra”)
Error: unexpected input in "help.search(“"

Assuming what you really typed was using plain ASCII quotes, please try 
a recent R-patched version.  The search

help.search("linear algebra")

works fine for me there.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> My sessionInfo() is:
>
> R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite)
>
> locale:
> [1] es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8/C/es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [7] base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.2.0
>
>
> And the library(help=“utils”) summary is:
>
> Package:       utils
> Version:       3.2.0
> Priority:      base
> Title:         The R Utils Package
> Author:        R Core Team and contributors worldwide
> Maintainer:    R Core Team <R-core at r-project.org>
> Description:   R utility functions.
> License:       Part of R 3.2.0
> Built:         R 3.2.0; x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0; 2015-04-20
>                 18:46:49 UTC; unix
>
>
>
> I have also posted the question in StackOverflow:
>
> 'help.search()' error returned
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/30640018/2214951?sem=2 <http://stackoverflow.com/q/30640018/2214951?sem=2>
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