[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.2.0 Mavericks/Yosemite: help.search showing error

[David Winsemius]

> On Jun 15, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
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> On Jun 15, 2015, at 7:36 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 15 Jun 2015, at 08:40 , David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 14, 2015, at 11:11 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
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>>>> OK, that explains it.
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>>>> (However, `cat VERSION` should work whether or not the build succeeds).
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>>> In the confusion about which build is which I hope it's not forgotten that the problem started with ver 3.2.0's help.search function throwing an unexpected error when run in the R.app environment.
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>> Yes, but the suggestion was that the issue had gone away in current R-3-2-branch versions (never mind the current name), so had it? (I'd rather not check it for you because I'm superstitious about upsetting the build machine so close to release.)
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> Yes, that has been long fixed:
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> Last-update: 2015-04-20
> *       fix HTTP help startup to use new R 3.2.0 API
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> *       adapt to changed variable names in hsearch$match

This is on a machine where I obtained the R/GUI package installer on Saturday for the express purpose of attempting (and succeeding) in replicating the report I saw in Rhelp.


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> help.search("test")
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
> sessionInfo()
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] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.0

Best;
David,

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> Cheers,
> Simon
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>>> David.
>>>> -pd
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>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>> Phone: (+45)38153501
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>> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA