[ESS] BUG: package-index conflicts with devtools

[Andreas Leha]

Hi Vitalie,

Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:

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

Indeed.  I did see some messages '? masked' during the loading of
devtools.  Since the update they are gone.

Regards,
Andreas



>
>    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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