[Bioc-devel] Latex/Rd problems?

Ting-Yuan Liu (FHCRC) tliu at fhcrc.org
Tue Sep 27 18:30:32 CEST 2005


Hi Karl,

The message said "! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing 
\item." I will guess you have a \begin{itemize} and \end{itemize} 
session but no \item inside the session.  Check this...

HTH,
Ting-Yuan


On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Dykema, Karl wrote:

> I seem to be having a new problem with my ideogram package passing the
> CHECK on 3 of the 4 systems on the daily package check results page.
> Packages biocViews and geneSpring also have similar errors.
> 
> I have gone through my .Rd and .Rnw files without finding any problems
> that are obvious. I have hopefully overlooked something rudimentary that
> a LaTex guru will easily spot. I can replicate the error on my windows
> PC with the current development version of R, but have not been able to
> figure anything out on my own. Thanks in advance if anyone can help!
> 
> 
> The error message: 
> 
> * checking ideogram-manual.tex ... ERROR LaTeX errors when creating DVI
> version.
> This typically indicates Rd problems.
> LaTeX errors found:
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
> 
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
> 
> 
> 
> Here is my session info:
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.2.0, 2005-08-25, i386-pc-mingw32 
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "tools"     "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> "datasets"  "base"     
> 
> other attached packages:
>   ideogram   annotate golubEsets    Biobase     hu6800 
>    "1.2.2"   "1.5.15"      "1.0"    "1.6.7"    "1.8.4"
> 
> 
> 
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> Laboratory of Computational Biology
> Van Andel Research Institute
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