[R] problem with help.search

[Elizabeth Purdom]

Hi,
Thanks. rebuild=T didn't help, but did make me realize there was a 
verbose option, so now I think I know what package it is.
Thanks,
Elizabeth

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 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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