Re: [R] R 3.2, Mac 10.10.3 : help.search showing error
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?
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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Re: [R] R 3.2, Mac 10.10.3 : help.search showing error
On Jun 13, 2015, at 11:04 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
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.
There was no error either with using help() or using the Mac GUI package
manager. Those were the reported difficulties previously reported.
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
The error I am getting was from the most recent R 3.2.0 downloaded yesterday.
There is no 3.2.0-Patched for Mavericks. The release candidate, R 3.2.1 RC, is
marked on the ATT Research webpage as failing Make and it indeed fails to
launch. I would NOT recommend that anyone accept that advice.
But maybe it is a Mac-specific problem. When I remove the crippled R 3.2.1 RC
and reinstall the R 3.2.0 and run from a Terminal window I do not get the
help.search() error. So copying to R SIG Mac, and will not copy R-help on any
further efforts.
--
David.
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]]
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Re: [R] R 3.2, Mac 10.10.3 : help.search showing error
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
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Re: [R] R 3.2, Mac 10.10.3 : help.search showing error
On Jun 13, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Ramnik Bansal wrote:
Thanks. But it seems to be an R 3.2.0 specific problem.
Exactly. That's why I needed to take the time to update my installation. I
posted a message to R-devel after failing to find where the code was different
in the two versions and not getting any understanding from tracing the
'help'-function.
I do see in the R 3.1.2 version that this code:
if (!missing(pattern)) {
if (!is.character(pattern) || (length(pattern) 1L))
stop(.wrong_args(pattern), domain = NA)
i - pmatch(fields, FIELDS)
if (anyNA(i))
stop(incorrect field specification)
else fields - FIELDS[i]
}
was changed to this:
if (!missing(pattern)) {
if (!is.character(pattern) || (length(pattern) 1L))
stop(.wrong_args(pattern), domain = NA)
i - pmatch(fields, hsearch_db_fields)
if (anyNA(i))
stop(incorrect field specification)
else fields - hsearch_db_fields[i]
}
And I see this in the NEWS file:
• New function hsearch_db() in package utils for building and
retrieving the help search database used byhelp.search(), along with functions
for inspecting the concepts and keywords in the help search database.
--
David.
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
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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Re: [R] R 3.2, Mac 10.10.3 : help.search showing error
Thanks. But it seems to be an R 3.2.0 specific problem.
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]]
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