Having loaded a package that masks an object from another package, calling
help(conflictedname, help_type = 'html') instead of producing a page giving the choices of help page available The page produced is Error in httpd("/library/NULL/help/nobs", NULL, NULL, c(48, 6f, 73, 74, : replacement has length zero This example is reproduced using library(gdata) help(nobs, help_type = 'html') sessionInfo() R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] gdata_2.12.0.2 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] gtools_2.7.1 tools_3.0.0 There are no issues when using help_type = 'pdf' or help_type = 'text' Michael ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel