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Open franknarf1 opened 6 years ago

franknarf1 commented 6 years ago

From R inferno:

help.request() is an interactive helper
it points to this seemingly defunct page: https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html (now supplanted by https://www.r-project.org/help.html ) -- have a look to see if there's anything useful. it then points to a sequence of other internal links worth reviewing
suggest waiting, reading from perspective of answerer, adding missing info

franknarf1 commented 6 years ago

help.request itself doesn't look worth recommending, though... it asks if i want to update R and when i say no, finds a CRAN mirror for me... um, thanks.

franknarf1 commented 5 years ago

Nice example of how to debug (read docs, pare down the code into the simplest form where the "problem" is still visible): https://stackoverflow.com/a/54695131