[Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

[Paul Geeleher]

Hey Martin,

Thanks for your reply. I actually have documentation, but I pasted a
version of the output that was created when I removed the .Rd files
(as I suspected they may be causing the problem). Here's the output
when the man files are all included (its more or less the same):


$ R CMD build --verbose r_package_files/
Warning: unknown option '--verbose'
* checking for file 'r_package_files/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'pRRophetic':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to build vignettes
      -----------------------------------
* installing *source* package 'pRRophetic' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: replacing previous import by 'genefilter::Anova' when loading
'pRRophetic'
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  line 1 did not have 38 elements
ERROR: installing package indices failed
* removing '/tmp/Rtmp6cwCZH/Rinst2f8f69e1ee/pRRophetic'
      -----------------------------------
ERROR: package installation failed


Thanks again,

Paul.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:04:29 -0500 writes:
>
>     > Hey all, I'm currently trying to build an R package and
>     > don't really know what to make of the error message I'm
>     > getting. I couldn't find anything helpful online so
>     > hopefully somebody here can give me a couple of
>     > pointers. I see the following when I try to build:
>
>     > s$ R CMD build --verbose r_package_files/
>     > Warning: unknown option '--verbose'
>     > * checking for file 'r_package_files/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>     > * preparing 'pRRophetic':
>     > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
>     > * installing the package to build vignettes
>     > -----------------------------------
>     > * installing *source* package 'pRRophetic' ...
>     > ** R
>     > ** data
>     > ** inst
>     > ** preparing package for lazy loading
>     > Warning: replacing previous import by 'genefilter::Anova' when loading
>     > 'pRRophetic'
>
>     > ** help
>     > No man pages found in package  'pRRophetic'
>
> Well, this could be it.  It may well be that we (R authors) do
> require some man pages, and I would not disagree with such a requirement.
>
> Do provide at least a man/pRRophetic-package.Rd file
> if nothing else.
>
> You can use   promptPackage()   to create a prototype for such a
> file easily.
>
> Martin
>
>     > *** installing help indices
>     > ** building package indices
>     > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
>     > line 1 did not have 38 elements
>     > ERROR: installing package indices failed
>
>
>
>     > Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>     > Paul.
>
>
>
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Dr. Paul Geeleher, PhD
Section of Hematology-Oncology
Department of Medicine
The University of Chicago
900 E. 57th St.,
KCBD, Room 7144
Chicago, IL 60637
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www.bioinformaticstutorials.com