From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Mar 12 22:04:36 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 12 23:04:50 2003
Subject: [Rd] problem with library() (or possibly grid) in r-devel
In-Reply-To: <200303121528.07664.deepayan@stat.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303122141260.21692-100000@gannet.stats>

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:

> In recent r-devels, I have
> 
> > library(help = grid)
> Error in formatDL(entry, style = "list") : 
> 	incorrect value for x
> 
> This doesn't happen for the other packages I have tried, so maybe this is a 
> problem with grid.

grid has a pdf file in inst/doc. but it's not a vignette.  So

> print(.readRDS("library/grid/Meta/vignette.rds"))
[1] File     Title    Depends  Keywords PDF     
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

The code in library() does not seem to be able to cope with that case.

BDR

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[Rd] problem with library() (or possibly grid) in r-devel
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