Just for the record, I don't see that error with 2.15.0 or with R-Devel 60040-someodd. Both display
> foo <- function(x) cat(x, "\n") > prompt(name = "foo") Created file named ‘foo.Rd’. Edit the file and move it to the appropriate directory. Best, Michael On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Paul Roebuck <[email protected]> wrote: >> ?prompt > [SNIP] > ## Create a help file for each function in the .GlobalEnv: > for(f in ls()) if(is.function(get(f))) prompt(name = f) > >> foo <- function(x) { cat(x, '\n')} >> prompt(name="foo") > Error in utils:::prompt(object, filename = filename, name = name, ...) : > argument "object" is missing, with no default >> version > platform x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 > arch x86_64 > os darwin9.8.0 > system x86_64, darwin9.8.0 > status Patched > major 2 > minor 15.1 > year 2012 > month 07 > day 05 > svn rev 59734 > language R > version.string R version 2.15.1 Patched (2012-07-05 r59734) > nickname Roasted Marshmallows > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
