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

[David Winsemius]

On Jun 15, 2015, at 7:27 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

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> 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"
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> ^^ but that's old!

Well, it's what I got 2 days ago from http://r.research.att.com/

> 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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I went to your site on Saturday. Downloaded the available Mavericks releases. Both of them. One threw the error. One simply failed to load.

http://r.research.att.com/mavericks/R-3.2-branch/R-3.2-branch-mavericks-signed.pkg is different that what I got  2 days ago. Yes. the error is corrected.

-- 

David.


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>> [R.app GUI 1.65 (6931) x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0]
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>> [History restored from /Users/davidwinsemius/.Rapp.history]
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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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>>>> -pd
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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
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA