I do not know if this has been reported already (I searched the headers of the recent messages to r-devel) It seems that 'example' in R 2.11.0 has a problem when the help file does not contain any example. This is what happens on R 2.11.0 on Windows XP.
> library(tools) > example(Rdiff) Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In file(con, "r") : cannot open file 'C:\DOCUME~1\neuwirth\LOCALS~1\Temp\RtmpmknOJe\Rex678418be': No such file or directory The error does not occur when there is an example marked #Not Run: The problem does not appear in R 2.10.1 > library(tools) > example(Rdiff) Warning message: In example(Rdiff) : 'Rdiff' has a help file but no examples > -- Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science Center for Computer Science Didactics and Learning Research Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-39902 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel