-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: r-base-core-ra Version: 1.2.4-1 Severity: normal
Hi Dirk, In a Ra session, help(matrix) # -> No documentation for 'matrix' in specified packages The issue is that my .libPaths() is [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" [3] "/usr/lib/Ra/lib/R/library" "/usr/lib/R/library" so help(), by default, looks in /usr/lib/Ra/lib/R/library (which apparently does not have working help pages) before it looks in /usr/lib/R/library . Thus, help(matrix, lib.loc = .libPaths()[-3]) yields the expected behavior, and help() works when lib.loc is unspecified if the function you are looking for is in a package contained in /usr/local/lib/R/site-library or /usr/lib/R/site-library . Looking at the directories ... bgoodr...@room320:~$ ls /usr/lib/Ra/lib/R/library/base CITATION demo DESCRIPTION man Meta po R bgoodr...@room320:~$ ls /usr/lib/R/library/base CITATION CONTENTS demo DESCRIPTION help html INDEX latex man Meta po R R-ex it looks like the core packages are not really "installed" by Ra, which perhaps is an intentional aspect of the way the sources of R and Ra are overlayed. If so, then we could probably workaround this problem in several ways (massive symlinkage, patch help() and example() to not look in /usr/lib/Ra/lib/R/library , reorder .libPaths() after the core packages are loaded, etc.), but I am not sure what would be best. Thanks, Ben - -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-2.slh.2-sidux-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages r-base-core-ra depends on: hi libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra ii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-7 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libgfortran3 4.3.3-1 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.1.1-6 library of linear algebra routines ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpaper-utils 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact ii libpcre3 7.8-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2 PNG library - runtime ii libreadline5 5.2-3.1 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii tcl8.5 8.5.3-2 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8 ii tk8.5 8.5.3-4 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 - ii unzip 5.52-12 De-archiver for .zip files ii zip 2.32-1 Archiver for .zip files ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages r-base-core-ra recommends: ii r-base-core 2.8.1-2 GNU R core of statistical computat ii r-base-dev 2.8.1-2 GNU R installation of auxiliary GN ii r-cran-jit 1.0-4-1 GNU R package just-in-time compila Versions of packages r-base-core-ra suggests: pn ess <none> (no description available) ii r-base-html 2.8.1-2 GNU R html docs for statistical co ii r-doc-html 2.8.1-2 GNU R html manuals for statistical ii r-doc-info 2.8.1-2 GNU R info manuals statistical com ii r-doc-pdf 2.8.1-2 GNU R pdf manuals for statistical ii r-mathlib 2.8.1-2 GNU R standalone mathematics libra ii r-recommended 2.8.1-2 GNU R collection of recommended pa - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmDTyYACgkQzQDSXIcN85k0zgCdHEPWSo5nJvxoBKJdkLSTic9P CBsAoIhf/0wUcrlFlxHy64XL8mcolZOK =0WOm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
