Unfortunately, no. We can use any package to reproduce this error, e.g. rgl
> library(rgl) > options(help_type = "text") > ?rgl.open # works fine > install.packages('rgl') # reinstall it Installing package(s) into ‘/home/yihui/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.13’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/src/contrib/rgl_0.92.798.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1677772 bytes (1.6 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1.6 Mb * installing *source* package ‘rgl’ ... checking for gcc... gcc .... ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (rgl) The downloaded packages are in ‘/tmp/Rtmp0NdwY4/downloaded_packages’ > ?rgl.open Error in fetch(key) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1 > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Platform: x86_64-pc-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=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 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] rgl_0.92.798 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.13.1 Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.