[Rd] Warnings about unrecognized escapes in Rd

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Thu Oct 19 06:19:44 CEST 2006


Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> writes:

> Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:
>> Er, do you have a minimal example showing the behaviour? It's not
>> quite clear whether you have this happening everywhere or only in
>> example sections, formulas or...?
>
> Oups.  The example I was looking at has \_ in a number of places in
> the Rd files so perhaps the warning is correct (in which case, my
> apologies for the noise).
>
> I'll look into it further.
>
> Of course it would be easier to detect this if the warning message
> gave more information about where the problem was encountered ;-)

Just to complete the thread: I was wrong, R was warning about
unrecognized escape sequences in example and usage sections, not
documentation text.

Sorry for the noise.

+ seth




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