This is really a question about .Rprofile and is becoming an FAQ.
The phenomenon you observe is due to the reorganization of the system
packages in R 1.9.x: The base package had segments broken off into
new separate packages, e.g. utils, where help.start() can be found.
In the ``NEWS'' file can be found the following paragraph:
Users may notice that code in .Rprofile is run with only the
new base loaded and so functions may now not be found. For
example, ps.options(horizontal = TRUE) should be preceded by
library(graphics) or called as graphics::ps.options or,
better, set as a hook -- see ?setHook.
So you could get help.start() to work by invoking it as
utils::help.start().
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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