[ESS] BUG: package-index conflicts with devtools

[Andreas Leha]

Hi Vitalie,


[12 hours and not on the list/gmane.  Resending this.]


Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:

>  >>> Andreas Leha on Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:33:59 +0100 wrote:
>
>  > Hi Vitalie,
>  > Thanks for looking into this and sorry for the long silence.
>
>
>  > Where am I supposed to do C-c ` ?  I am doing this in the *help[R]*
>  > buffer and get a 'C-c ` is undefined'
>
> No, C-c ` is bound to ess-show-traceback in script and process buffers.
>
>  > Could you please advise me further on what you want me to do?
>
> Just look at the traceback() and investigate where the error
> occurred. It's most likely on devtools side. It's quite intrusive.

[...]

Here is the traceback:

,----
| + Error in strsplit(topic, "::") : non-character argument
|
| ----------------------------------
|
| 3: strsplit(topic, "::")
| 2: find_topic(e1_str)
| 1: `?`(Matrix::updown)
`----

> From this, I tried directly
,----
| > `?`(Matrix::updown)
| Error in strsplit(topic, "::") : non-character argument
`----

So, this is indeed not an ess issue, but a devtools issue.

I switched to the github version of devtools and the problem went away.

Sorry for the noise and thanks for your patience.

Best,
Andreas