Pascal Oettli
2013-Apr-10 03:31 UTC
[R] Error while displaying help page of a function existing inside two different loaded libraries
Dear R users,
I recently upgraded R from version 2.15.3 to version 3.0.0 (after
removing version 2.15.3 and cleaning installation directory) using the
package provided by openSUSE (R-base).
I am now running into an issue when two loaded packages share the same
name for a function.
For example, "image" (packages graphics and gstat) and
"dotchart"
(packaged graphics and survey) functions.
In R-2.15.3, a choice was displayed, in order to choose the function
within the desired package.
In R-3.0.0, an error appears inside the web browser (Firefox):
?image
Error in httpd("/library/NULL/help/image", NULL, NULL, c(48, 6f, 73,
74,
: replacement has length zero
?dotchart
Error in httpd("/library/NULL/help/dotchart", NULL, NULL, c(48, 6f,
73,
: replacement has length zero
Did anybody else already encounter this issue? Or is it a problem with
my own installation?
Herewith is the result of "sessionInfo"
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
Platform: x86_64-suse-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] survey_3.29-4 gstat_1.0-16 sp_1.0-8
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_3.0.0 intervals_0.14.0 lattice_0.20-15 spacetime_1.0-4
[5] tools_3.0.0 xts_0.9-3 zoo_1.7-9
Best Regards,
Pascal Oettli