Thanks a lot! I did not save the "200ms". I did exactly what you described, since that is the only way to go. So I ended up with restarting R hundreds of times a day.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > This is by design, *if* you have already used the help in the package. The > help database is cached. > > I simply don't see you why you believe that you need to save the 200ms it > takes to start R: you can view the new documentation in a different R > instance. > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Rolf Turner wrote: > >> >> I can verify that I get exactly the same error (also R 2.13.1 under >> Ubuntu). >> No idea what to *do* about it, though. :-( >> >> cheers, >> >> Rolf Turner >> >> On 16/07/11 11:25, Yihui Xie wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have noticed this problem ever since R changed its static HTML help >>> pages to dynamic help pages: when I reinstall a package and try to >>> view any help page of this package, I always get this error (in the >>> terminal or html page) >>> >>> Error in fetch(key) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1 >>> >>> As a package developer, I often have to reinstall a package again and >>> again, so I wish I do not have to restart R to see the new >>> documentation. Anybody ever met a similar situation and has an idea? >>> Thanks! >>> >>> I use R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu, and it also appears in Windows 7. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
