Yihui Xie
2011-Jul-15 23:25 UTC
[R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled
Hi all, I have noticed this problem ever since R changed its static HTML help pages to dynamic help pages: when I reinstall a package and try to view any help page of this package, I always get this error (in the terminal or html page) Error in fetch(key) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1 As a package developer, I often have to reinstall a package again and again, so I wish I do not have to restart R to see the new documentation. Anybody ever met a similar situation and has an idea? Thanks! I use R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu, and it also appears in Windows 7. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
Rolf Turner
2011-Jul-16 00:14 UTC
[R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled
I can verify that I get exactly the same error (also R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu).
No idea what to *do* about it, though. :-(
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 16/07/11 11:25, Yihui Xie wrote:> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed this problem ever since R changed its static HTML help
> pages to dynamic help pages: when I reinstall a package and try to
> view any help page of this package, I always get this error (in the
> terminal or html page)
>
> Error in fetch(key) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1
>
> As a package developer, I often have to reinstall a package again and
> again, so I wish I do not have to restart R to see the new
> documentation. Anybody ever met a similar situation and has an idea?
> Thanks!
>
> I use R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu, and it also appears in Windows 7.
Gabor Grothendieck
2011-Jul-16 00:33 UTC
[R] help page becomes unavailable after a package is reinstalled
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz> wrote:> > I can verify that I get exactly the same error (also R 2.13.1 under Ubuntu). > No idea what to *do* about it, though. :-( >You could check if text help works: options(help_type = "text") ?by or help("by", help_type = "text") -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com