[ESS] ?foo doesn't work in development

[Ross Boylan]

I synced up with ESS git yesterday, and noticed today that ? help
doesn't work.  That is, if I type ?matrix nothing happens except I get a
new line with a prompt.

I have edited ess-help.el locally to eliminate the 'force argument that
caused trouble for my emacs.  But I didn't notice any changes to that
file when I took in the latest changes.

*ESS* shows
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ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=t,
comint..sender=comint-simple-send
(ess-help '*help[R](matrix)*' start  ..
 |--> t [searching nil]
(ess-help: kill bogus buffer *help[R](matrix)* ..
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*Messages* has
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No documentation for ‘']'’ in specified packages and libraries:
No documentation for ‘'['’ in specified packages and libraries:
No documentation for ‘subscript’ in specified packages and libraries:
No documentation found;  [2 times]
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reflecting some earlier queries (which also produced nothing).  There
are corresponding entries in *ESS* for them.

I was also a bit suprised by the new startup, since AFIK ESS didn't use
to install a library:
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R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows"
Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> >
install.packages('/home/ross/UCSF/Choi/GitHub/ESS/etc/ESSR_1.0.tar.gz')
Installing package(s) into
‘/home/ross/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
inferring 'repos = NULL' from the file name
* installing *source* package ‘ESSR’ ...
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded

* DONE (ESSR)
> library(ESSR)
> options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last="'", editor='emacsclient',
show.error.locations=TRUE)