Will look into this next week :-)
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <e...@debian.org>
To: "Ben Goodrich" <goodr...@fas.harvard.edu>
Cc: <513...@bugs.debian.org>; <mi...@sonic.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#513617: r-base-core-ra: help() and example() fail by
default for functions in core packages
|
| Ben,
|
| On 30 January 2009 at 18:39, Ben Goodrich wrote:
|| The three attached patches apply to files in
||
|| /r-base-core-ra-1.2.4/src/library/utils/R
|
| I applied them, expect a new upload shortly. In the future, please send
| patches via the common unified diff format as from
|
| diff -ru foo-1.2.3.orig/ foo-1.2.3/
|
| (where foo-1.2.3 contains you changes). I applied this by hand now and
will
| try remember to apply for the next package -- unless Steve takes them
| upstream.
|
| Steve: Context was that I am trying to make Ra (i.e. r-base-core-ra in
| Debian) a little 'lighter' by not installing all the help files etc. Or
do
| you on the other hand recommend that I do? It seemed like a good idea at
the
| time as most (all ?) of these are not patched anyway, so why double
them...
|
| Dirk
|
|
|| Poking around in the R code for help(), example(), and help.search(),
|| when lib.loc is NULL, it is ultimately changed to the output of
|| .libPaths(), which causes Ra trouble because the help files in the core
|| libraries are not built. So, in each case, when lib.loc is NULL, we
|| change it to the output of .libPaths() earlier and then exclude the
|| directory where the core libraries live.
||
|| Does this feature / bug afflict other platforms? If so, the patches
|| should still work, but I only tested them under Debian. E.g.
||
|| ?matrix
|| example(matrix)
|| library(jit)
|| ?jit
|| example(jit)
|| help.search("jit")
||
|| are all now working correctly under Ra with these three patches.
||
|| Thanks,
|| Ben
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