[Rd] trace an Rd conversion error in R cmd check

[Joshua Wiley]

Thanks to Drs. Murdoch and Ripley for your fast and helpful replies.
I did not realize that R CMD check was R code, so that was incredibly
useful.

I spent the morning working on debugging this, and I think I must have
messed up setting up the Windows tool chain, because I get the error
even when running R CMD check on other packages (e.g., MASS).  I am
still not sure what exactly I am missing/setup incorrectly.  R
compiled from source and passed make check all without any trouble.  I
can install packages, and I can make PDFs using tools:::..Rd2pdf, but
when I try to use Rd2pdf on a package instead of specific files I get
the error.

Looking at the R code for CMD check helped me better understand the
process and I will just work with my tool chain until I get things
working.

Thanks again!

Josh



On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> R CMD check is R code: you can run the R code for yourself using R's
> debugging facilities.  In this case start with 'R CMD Rd2pdf pkg-name'
> (which should give the same error, as that is what R CMD check calls), then
> run that R code directly (there are comments in the code in R-devel about
> how to do so).
>
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, 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
>>
>> 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.
>
> This is far too rare a problem to be documented in detail.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Wiley
>> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
>> Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
>> University of California, Los Angeles
>> https://joshuawiley.com/
>>
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-- 
Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
University of California, Los Angeles
https://joshuawiley.com/