[ESS] problems with help in the development version

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 05:30:17 CEST 2013


Sorry, cannot reproduce. Which version of ESS is this? Which version of
R? Could you please M-x toggle-debug-on-error first?

 >>> Ross Boylan on Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:18:02 -0700 wrote:

 > On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 12:27 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
 >> After doing 
 >> help.search("memory")
 >> any effort to get help, e.g.,
 >> ?memory.size
 >> fails with "wrong number of arguments: switch-to-buffer, 3
 >> 
 >> ?foo works before the help.search().
 >> 
 >> Ross Boylan
 >> 
 > I got the same behavior when I did
 > ?save.image

 > in a new run, i.e., without having asked for help.search().
 > So maybe it's the "." that's the problem.  Is that a known issue?

 > ?lm also produced the error after the help.search() request, so it is
 > not only "." commands that are affected once the problem kicks in.

 > Ross

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