[Rd] trace an Rd conversion error in R cmd check
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 13:02:53 CEST 2011
On 11-10-12 3:24 AM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Apologies if this is a very naive question. Is there a way to see the
> particular Rd file being processed right before a warning/error
> occurs? As far as I can tell, all my .Rd files use have names and
> titles and they are unique between Rd files (sometimes in a file I use
> something like \name{foo} \title{Foo}). I seem to be able to convert
> files to latex using: R CMD Rdconv --type=latex on all my Rd files
> without problems.
>
> Here is the warning and error:
>
> * checking PDF version of manual ... ERROR
> Rd conversion errors:
> Warning in file(con, "r") :
> file("") only supports open = "w+" and open = "w+b": using the former
> Error : : Sections \title, and \name must exist and be unique in Rd files
It does normally list the name. In your case, that appears to be "",
based on the warning.
I don't know how this would come about (I don't believe "" is a legal
filename in Windows).
If you could make a copy of the package available, I might be able to
track this down.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> I am using:
>
> R Under development (unstable) (2011-10-11 r57214)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> on Windows 7 with Rtools 2.14 and MikTeX 2.9
>
> Any suggestions or pointers to manuals/documentation would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>
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