R devel - May 2008 - help (using ?) does not handle trailing whitespace (PR#11537)

> ?agrep 
> 
Results in:

No documentation for 'agrep ' in specified packages and libraries:
you could try 'help.search("agrep ")'

There is white space after agrep, that ? doesn't ignore.


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Version:
 platform = i486-pc-linux-gnu
 arch = i486
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i486, linux-gnu
 status = 
 major = 2
 minor = 7.0
 year = 2008
 month = 04
 day = 22
 svn rev = 45424
 language = R
 version.string = R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)

Locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils,
package:datasets, package:showStructure, package:Rcode, package:splus2R,
package:methods, Autoloads, package:base

We don't know how to reproduce this: 'whitespace' is not specific
enough.

R's tokenizer breaks input at spaces, so a space would never be part of 
that expression.  And tabs don't even get to the parser in interactive 
use, and you cannot mean a newline.  So exactly what do you mean by 
'whitespace'?

The character in your email as received here is an ASCII space, and that 
is used to end the token on all my systems.  That's not to say that you 
didn't type something else that looks like a space (e.g. a nbspace) since 
email systems are fickle.

None of my guesses worked, so we need precise reproduction instructions.

On Thu, 29 May 2008, rocket at google.com wrote:
>> ?agrep
>>
>
> Results in:
>
> No documentation for 'agrep ' in specified packages and libraries:
> you could try 'help.search("agrep ")'
>
> There is white space after agrep, that ? doesn't ignore.
>
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
> platform = i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch = i486
> os = linux-gnu
> system = i486, linux-gnu
> status > major = 2
> minor = 7.0
> year = 2008
> month = 04
> day = 22
> svn rev = 45424
> language = R
> version.string = R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
>
> Locale:
>
LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices,
package:utils, package:datasets, package:showStructure, package:Rcode,
package:splus2R, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
>
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