> On 14-06-2015, at 06:25, Ramnik Bansal <ramnik.ban...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks. But it seems to be an R 3.2.0 specific problem. >
I replied with the following to a similar message on R-devel. ———————————————————————— See this thread on R-SIG-Mac https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2015-April/011420.html This may help. Get R 3.2.0-patched or even the release candidate for R 3.2.1 ———————————————————————— Berend > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:42 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > wrote: > >> >> On Jun 13, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Ramnik Bansal wrote: >> >>> Getting following error in using help.search >>> >>>> utils::help.search("linear models") >>> 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 >> >> I first tried this in a Mac running the SL version for R 3.1.2 and did not >> get this error. I updated my Mavericks laptop to R 3.2.0 and can now >> reproduce this error. It does not seem to depend on having a space in the >> argument. It seems to be thrown by this segment of code in the >> `help()`-function: >> >> ischar <- tryCatch(is.character(topic) && length(topic) == >> 1L, error = identity) >> if (inherits(ischar, "error")) >> ischar <- FALSE >> if (!ischar) { >> reserved <- c("TRUE", "FALSE", "NULL", "Inf", "NaN", >> "NA", "NA_integer_", "NA_real_", "NA_complex_", "NA_character_") >> stopic <- deparse(substitute(topic)) >> if (!is.name(substitute(topic)) && !stopic %in% reserved) >> stop("'topic' should be a name, length-one character vector or >> reserved word") >> >> If gone through the `help.search` function code and cannot find where the >> `help` function is actually called. This seems unlikely to be a >> Mac-specific problem. >> >>> >>> >>>> example(help.search) >>> >>> hlp.sr> help.search("linear models") # In case you forgot how to fit >>> linear >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> How to sort this? >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> David Winsemius >> Alameda, CA, USA >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
