[R] problem with help.search

[Peter Dalgaard]

Elizabeth Purdom wrote:
> Hi,
> I have done something (added an unstable package, probably) that has 
> made my help.search function not work. I was wondering if anyone could 
> give me trouble-shooting advice to locate the problem so I don't need to 
> reinstall everything from scratch.
>
> I'm in Windows XP, R-2.6.0. The error code is below.
>
>   
Hmm, I'm not that deeply into the Windows side of things, but I'd look 
into the rebuild=TRUE option. and possibly remove.packages().

> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
>  > help.search("latex")
> Error in help.search("latex") : could not find package 'file153c12db'
>  > traceback()
> 2: stop(gettextf("could not find package '%s'", p), domain = NA)
> 1: help.search("latex")
>
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