From John.Maindonald at anu.edu.au  Sun Sep 23 02:23:36 2007
From: John.Maindonald at anu.edu.au (John.Maindonald at anu.edu.au)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:23:36 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] html help fails for named vector objects (PR#9927)
Message-ID: <20070923002336.3332B66893@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

   help(letters, htmlhelp=TRUE) fails.

Under the Mac OSX gui, the message is 'Help for the topic "a" was not  
found.' Under the version documented below, and under Windows, the  
message is

   "No documentation for 'a' in specified packages and libraries:"
repeated for all the elements of letters, then followed by
   "you could try 'help.search("a")'",
again repeated for all elements of letters.

The outcome seems similar for any character vector (including matrix)  
object, e.g. the matrix 'primateDNA' in the DAAGbio package.

The following have the expected result
   help("letters", htmlhelp=TRUE)
   help(letters, htmlhelp=FALSE)

The same result is obtained with R-2.5.1.


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Version:
platform = i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
arch = i386
os = darwin8.10.1
system = i386, darwin8.10.1
status = beta
major = 2
minor = 6.0
year = 2007
month = 09
day = 22
svn rev = 42941
language = R
version.string = R version 2.6.0 beta (2007-09-22 r42941)

Locale:
C

Search Path:
.GlobalEnv, package:testpkg, package:stats, package:graphics,  
package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods,  
Autoloads, package:base

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[Rd] html help fails for named vector objects (PR#9927)
John.Maindonald at anu.edu.au