`??` documentation search stopped working

[Yarnabrina]

@stragu

the help.search() (which ?? is a shortcut for) fails to return results

This is related to this issue:

help.search() no longer works with R 3.6.0

There is a similar thread:

help.search() not working

Hi, With RStudio Version 1.2.1335, Build 1379 (f1ac3452), under Windows 10, in a fresh session, and using R 3.6.0 I find that help.search(), e.g., help.search("log") produces empty results even though the same command produces many hits when entered in the R GUI. As well, this command works fine in RStudio with R 3.5.3. My session info: R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763) Matrix products: default locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 …