Re: [Rd] Expected error with help.search in R 3.2.0

2015-06-13 Thread Berend Hasselman
> On 14-06-2015, at 06:47, David Winsemius wrote: > > Using the Mavericks/Yosemite version of R 3.2.0, I see this: > >> 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 re

[Rd] Expected error with help.search in R 3.2.0

2015-06-13 Thread David Winsemius
Using the Mavericks/Yosemite version of R 3.2.0, I see this: > 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 Using R 3.1.2 on a SnowLeapard branch does not pro

[Rd] Lack of protection bug in current R release candidate

2015-06-13 Thread Radford Neal
The current R release candidate has a lack of protect bug (of very long standing) with respect to the R_print.na_string and R_print.na_string_noquote fields of the static R_print structure declared in Print.h. This shows up very occassionally as incorrect output from the following lines in reg-tes

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring "foo.bar" as nonS3method() ?!

2015-06-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Martin et al., Thank you for considering so thoroughly the issue that I raised. Best, John On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:35:41 +0200 Martin Maechler wrote: > > Luke Tierney > > on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:30:29 -0500 writes: > > > The notes available off the devloper page > > h

Re: [Rd] RFC: Declaring "foo.bar" as nonS3method() ?!

2015-06-13 Thread Martin Maechler
> Luke Tierney > on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:30:29 -0500 writes: > The notes available off the devloper page > https://developer.r-project.org/ describe some of the rationale for > the S3 method search design. One thing that has changed since then is > that all packages now