> On 14-06-2015, at 06:47, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Using the Mavericks/Yosemite version of R 3.2.0, I see this:
>
>> utils::help.search("linear models")
> Error in help(db[i, "topic"], package = db[i, "Package"], lib.loc = lib, :
> 'topic' should be a name, length-one character vector or reserved word
>
> Using R 3.1.2 on a SnowLeapard branch does not produce the same result. I do
> get the expected large number of hits where those words are in the help
> pages. It's an error message from the `help` function, so seems less likely
> to be restricted to Macs. I do see that the help() code near the stop() call
> is the same in both versions. I do not see where `help.search` calls `help`.
>
> Tracing help is unrevealing. The first call to `help` throws the error and
> the call looks exactly like the calls in R 3.1.2
>
See this thread on R-SIG-Mac
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2015-April/011420.html
This may help.
Get R 3.2.0-patched or even the release candidate for R 3.2.1
Berend
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