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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:37:57 -0500 writes:

    > 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

I see. Now try

    options(error=recover)
    tools:::.build_packages("<your_source_package_path>/pRRophetic")


    > ERROR: installing package indices failed
    > * removing '/tmp/Rtmp6cwCZH/Rinst2f8f69e1ee/pRRophetic'