[ESS] BUG: package-index conflicts with devtools

[Vitalie Spinu]

That means that devtools overwrites some core help commands in R. A bit
worrisome :(

   Vitalie
   
 >>> Andreas Leha on Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:20:46 +0100 wrote:

 > 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

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