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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jun 15, 2015, at 10:09 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:

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>> 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
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> 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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> R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) -- "Full of Ingredients"

^^ but that's old! Please test with the current RC - it's pointless to report things on old releases that have been fixed since ... I really don't know how else we can make this more simple - we have nightly builds as easy to install as the releases and still people don't bother testing them until it's too late :(


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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)
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> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
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> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
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> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.2.0
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> Best;
> David,
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>> Cheers,
>> Simon
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>>>> -- 
>>>> David.
>>>>> -pd
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