[Rd] Problem with build and check

[Enrico Schumann]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, "Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D." <therneau at mayo.edu> writes:

> I am getting failure of build and check, for an Rd file that has a long argument list.
> Guess diagnosis: a quoted string beyond a certain point in the argument list is fatal.

Another guess: should you not escape the '%'?  That is, write
"\%Y-\%m-\%d"?  [Untested.]

> Example:  Use the function below, create an Rd file for it with
> prompt().  Move the .Rd file to the man directory (no need to edit it)
> and try building
>
> dart.control <- function(server=c("production", "integration", "development",
>                                   "http"),
>                          out.poll.duration = 5,
>                          out.poll.increase = 1.1,
>                          out.poll.max = 30,
>                          out.poll.timeout = 3600,
>                          netrc.path,
>                          netrc.server = "ldap",
>                          rtype = c("xml", "json"),
>                          dateformat= "%Y-%m-%d") {
>
>     server <- match.arg(server)
>     server
> }
>
> I created a package "dummy" with only this function, and get the following on my Linux box.
>
> tmt-local2021% R CMD build dummy
> * checking for file ‘dummy/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
> * preparing ‘dummy’:
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> Warning: newline within quoted string at dart.control.Rd:11
> Warning:
> /tmp/RtmpjPjz9V/Rbuild398d6e382572/dummy/man/dart.control.Rd:46:
> unexpected section header '\value'
> Warning: newline within quoted string at dart.control.Rd:11
> Error in parse_Rd("/tmp/RtmpjPjz9V/Rbuild398d6e382572/dummy/man/dart.control.Rd", :
>   Unexpected end of input (in " quoted string opened at dart.control.Rd:88:16)
> Execution halted
>
> Session info for my version
>> sessionInfo()
> R Under development (unstable) (2014-10-30 r66907)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=C
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base
>
>
> Terry T.
>


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