Indeed it's a RStudio issue as diagnosed by Hugh, and is still an issue
with the latest version.
Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 à 15:02, Duncan Murdoch a
écrit :
> On 29/07/2019 7:39 a.m., Ant F wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > The help for `?install.packages` decribes, in the `pkg` argument
> > description
On 29/07/2019 7:39 a.m., Ant F wrote:
Dear all,
The help for `?install.packages` decribes, in the `pkg` argument
description :
If this is missing, a listbox of available packages is presented where
possible in an interactive R session.
In fact running it with a missing argument triggers an e
Indeed Hugh, apologies for the oversight, I've reported this to Rstudio, as
I believe it is problematic to get an irrelevant help file when calling
`?install.packages`.
https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/5154
Best regards,
Antoine
Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 à 13:59, Hugh Parsonage a
écrit :
Maybe related to this?
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17556
> "Antoine" == Ant F writes:
Antoine> Dear all,
Antoine> The help for `?install.packages` decribes, in the `pkg` argument
Antoine> description :
>> If this is missing, a listbox of availabl
Are you running that command in RStudio? And do you get the documented
results when you run utils::install.packages() rather than just
install.packages()
If yes, then the function is likely working as advertised and you've
mixed up the R and RStudio versions
On 29/07/2019, Ant F wrote:
> Dear a
