mwtoews at sfu.ca
2008-Oct-06 14:40 UTC
[Rd] Bug with message if there is no documentation; R2.8alpha Win32 (PR#13131)
In the latest R 2.8 alpha for Win32, if either of the commands are typed:> help("erfc").. or ..> ?erfcthe result is: No documentation for 'erfc' in specified packages and libraries: you could try '??erfc' This should be: 'help.search("erfc")', as shown in R 2.7.2 Apologies if this has already been submitted/fixed. -Mike --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status = alpha major = 2 minor = 8.0 year = 2008 month = 10 day = 03 svn rev = 46594 language = R version.string = R version 2.8.0 alpha (2008-10-03 r46594) Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 3 Locale: LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
Prof Brian Ripley
2008-Oct-06 15:21 UTC
[Rd] Bug with message if there is no documentation; R2.8alpha Win32 (PR#13131)
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, mwtoews at sfu.ca wrote:> In the latest R 2.8 alpha for Win32, if either of the commands are typed: >> help("erfc") > .. or .. >> ?erfc > the result is: > No documentation for 'erfc' in specified packages and libraries: > you could try '??erfc' > > This should be: 'help.search("erfc")', as shown in R 2.7.2Why do you think so? From the NEWS o ??topic now does help.search("topic"); variations such as ??pkg::topic or field??topic are also supported.> Apologies if this has already been submitted/fixed.Please ask on R-devel about unreleased versions of R: from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html 'Please don't report bugs in this version through the usual R bug reporting system, please report them on the r-devel mailing list.'> -Mike > > --please do not edit the information below-- > > Version: > platform = i386-pc-mingw32 > arch = i386 > os = mingw32 > system = i386, mingw32 > status = alpha > major = 2 > minor = 8.0 > year = 2008 > month = 10 > day = 03 > svn rev = 46594 > language = R > version.string = R version 2.8.0 alpha (2008-10-03 r46594) > > Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 3 > > Locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 > > Search Path: > .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, > package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595