[Rd] installation of source package with empty man directory fails (PR#13685)

[Uwe Ligges]

This is already fixed in R-patched.

Please read the FAQs about bugs and try the recent R-patched or R-devel 
version.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



daniel.sabanesbove at gmx.net wrote:
> Full_Name: Daniel Sabanes Bove
> Version: 2.9.0
> OS: openSUSE 11.1 (2.6.27.21)
> Submission from: (NULL) (91.13.255.113)
> 
> 
> - Situation:
> Checking or installing an R package with existing but empty man directory fails.
> Perhaps this is a feature, but then a nice error message like
> "Subdirectory 'man' contains no help pages!"
> would be great.
> 
> - Error:
> * Installing *source* package ‘test’ ...
> ** R
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> Fehler in `[.data.frame`(M, , 4) : undefined columns selected
> 
> - Reproduce:
> Start an R session, create (at least) one test object and run package.skeleton.
> Then R CMD check the test package.
> 
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