R devel - Jun 2006 - error message from help.search()

Dear R-Devel,

consider:

[rufus:~] lobry% R --vanilla --quiet
>  sessionInfo()
Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics" 
"grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
[7] "base"
>  help.search(package = "graphics", keyword = "hplot")
>  help.search(package = "stats", keyword = "hplot")
Error in help.search(package = "stats", keyword = "hplot") :
         could not find package 'stats'
>  q()

could it be possible in this situation to have an error message
giving a clue to the 'rebuild' argument in help.search() ?

Thanks,
Jean
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Jean lobry wrote:
> Dear R-Devel,
>
> consider:
>
> [rufus:~] lobry% R --vanilla --quiet
>>  sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics" 
"grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> [7] "base"
>>  help.search(package = "graphics", keyword =
"hplot")
>>  help.search(package = "stats", keyword = "hplot")
> Error in help.search(package = "stats", keyword =
"hplot") :
>         could not find package 'stats'
>>  q()
>
>
> could it be possible in this situation to have an error message
> giving a clue to the 'rebuild' argument in help.search() ?
As I *have already said* that the message is different in R-devel:
> help.search(package = "stats", keyword = "hplot")
Error in help.search(package = "stats", keyword = "hplot") :
         no information in the data base for package 'stats': need
'rebuild = TRUE'?

!  And I have now ported that to R-patched.

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