[Rd] anyone familiar with this error?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Whit Armstrong wrote:

> [whit at linuxsvr R.packages]$ sudo R CMD INSTALL  portfolio.construction
> * Installing to library '/usr/local/lib64/R/library'
> * Installing *source* package 'portfolio.construction' ...
> ** R
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: fts
> Loading required package: quadprog
> Loading required package: Rexcelpoi
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
>  what():  basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
> /usr/local/lib64/R/bin/INSTALL: line 455: 25001 Done
> ( echo "options(warn=1); invisible(.libPaths(c(\"${lib}\",
> .libPaths()))); .getRequiredPackages();
> tools:::makeLazyLoading(\"${R_PACKAGE_NAME}\", \"${lib}\")" )
>     25002 Aborted                 (core dumped) | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=
> LC_ALL=C "${R_EXE}" --vanilla --slave
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'portfolio.construction'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib64/R/library/portfolio.construction'
> ** Restoring previous '/usr/local/lib64/R/library/portfolio.construction'
> [whit at linuxsvr R.packages]$
>
>
> I've tried a few things, but can't seem to track down the problem.
>
> it's leaving core files in my package directory.  (not in the .Rcheck
> directory, directly in the package dir)

Well, you did INSTALL, not 'check', so there is no .Rcheck directory.

The issue is that it cannot load your package, and it seems the error is 
in C++ code in the package or a dependency.  You've given use very little 
to go on beyond that.

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