[R] Annotation metadata "kills" help.search

[Gabor Grothendieck]

This happened to me in R 2.1.0 (I forget which specific version
since I now have March 27th) on Windows XP which I traced to
package dataRep.  Once I removed that package help.search 
worked again.


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:08:58 -0500, Gerard Tromp
<gerard.tromp at sanger.med.wayne.edu> wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> OS: Windows
> R 2.0.1
> 
> Before anyone flames -- I tried to query this on the R searchable web site
> and using google and did not find anything applicable.
> 
> As of about a week ago the help.search function dies when used in the simple
> help.search("something") usage.
> The error is
> Error in rbind(...) : number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 203)
> 
> After some effort I have traced it down to the annotation packages. I
> installed
> GO, KEGG, mgu74[abc]v2 and hgu133plus2 all version 1.7.0
> 
> When I move these out of the library directory, help.search() functions
> correctly again.
> 
> I have not tracked it any further -- just wanted to know if anyone else had
> noticed it.
> 
> Gerard Tromp
> 
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