[Rd] Comment on build and INSTALL

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Tue May 31 21:38:07 CEST 2011


On 11-05-31 3:29 PM, Ronald Barry wrote:
> Greetings,
>    I have noticed two possible small glitches with build and INSTALL.
> First, when I run R CMD build latticeDensity, I get the following message:
>
>                   *excluding invalid files from 'latticeDensity'
>                   Subdirectory R contains invalid file names:
>                        R
>
> However, all the files end up in the zip file (or tar) just fine, and
> neither INSTALL nor check seems to care.

What is the glitch?  Do you not have a file with that name?

>
> The other small glitch is that if you have unmatched brackets in a man file,
>
> INSTALL will flag an error and point out that there are unmatched brackets,
> but will often indicate that the unmatched bracket occurs in  a different
> file
> that is in perfect shape.
>

I have never seen that.  Do you have an example?

Duncan Murdoch



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