[Rd] Warnings about unrecognized escapes in Rd

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Seth Falcon wrote:

> 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.

This warning comes from the parser, and only when parsing quoted 
strings.  That is why it is hard to give any more information about where 
the error is: the parser does not know much about where in the input it 
is.  (You can't even easily give the current string as you are in the 
middle of parsing it: I am working on that one.)

>
> Sorry for the noise.
>
> + seth
>
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