[Rd] Problem with build and check
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 20:28:16 CET 2014
On 12/11/2014 2:11 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
> 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.
No, the problem is that % is a comment marker in .Rd. You need to
escape those in the dateformat default. Apparently
prompt() doesn't know this...
Duncan Murdoch
>
> 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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