[R] SOS package: findFn does not work

[Eric Berger]

Hi,
I was able to reproduce this problem on R 4.0.3 on Ubuntu 20.04.
I removed the CRAN sos package and installed the github version per
Spencer's advice.
After that it worked fine.

Eric


On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 1:50 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> R 4.1.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.
> I cannot reproduce this:
>
>
> sos::findFn("spline", maxPages = 2)
> #found 3867 matches;  retrieving 2 pages, 40 matches.
> #2
> #Downloaded 40 links in 27 packages.
>
>
> Possible solutions are to close and restart R and to check your internet
> connection.
> Is the package updated?
>
> packageVersion("sos")
> #[1] ‘2.1.0’
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Às 08:57 de 07/08/21, hp wan escreveu:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Recently, I found that the SOS package (very helpful package) does not
> > work.  When I used the "findFn" function to search something, it always
> > said "found 0 matches" (see below). My desktop system is Win 10 and R
> > version is R-4.1.0. Any suggestion was greatly appreciated.
> >
> > HP
> >
> >
> >> z <- findFn("spline", maxPages = 2)
> > found 0 matches
> > Warning message:
> > In findFn("spline", maxPages = 2) :
> >    HIT not found in HTML;  processing one page only.
> >
> >       [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
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