From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Apr 23 15:07:46 2013
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:07:46 +0100
Subject: [Rd] httpd error with and help_type = 'html', package = NULL
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Is this not PR#15282?  No one has got to it yet.

On 23/04/2013 07:32, Michael Nelson wrote:
> Having loaded a package that masks an object from another package, calling
>
>
> help(conflictedname, help_type = 'html')
>
>
> instead of producing a page giving the choices of help page available
>
> The page produced is
>
> Error in httpd("/library/NULL/help/nobs", NULL, NULL, c(48, 6f, 73, 74,  :
>    replacement has length zero
>
>
> This example is reproduced using
>
> library(gdata)
> help(nobs, help_type = 'html')
>
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
> Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                       LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] gdata_2.12.0.2
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] gtools_2.7.1 tools_3.0.0
>
>
> There are no issues when using help_type = 'pdf' or help_type = 'text'
>
>
> Michael
>
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[Rd] httpd error with and help_type = 'html', package = NULL
Prof Brian Ripley