[R] Problem with RCMD build ...

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Carlos" == Carlos J Gil Bellosta <cgb at datanalytics.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:51:34 +0200 writes:

    Carlos> Dear Justin,
    Carlos> I also had similar problems recently...  In fact, I have just created a 
    Carlos> "package" using package.skeleton and if I try to build it without 
    Carlos> editing the DESCRIPTION file (you did not mention you did, right?) R 
    Carlos> complains. In fact, it appears to be malformed (I am running version 
    Carlos> 2.1.0 of R on a Debian (testing) Linux box); it is [sic]:

    Carlos> Package: fooType: Package
	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Carlos> Title: What the package does (short line)
    Carlos> Version: 1.0
    Carlos> Date: 2005-08-23
    Carlos> Author: Who wrote it
    Carlos> Maintainer: Who to complain to <yourfault at somewhere.net>
    Carlos> Description: More about what it does (maybe more than one line)
    Carlos> License: What license is it under?

    Carlos> As you can see, the two first lines are pasted together. Can this 
    Carlos> perhaps be the problem?

yes, that has been a bug in R 2.1.0
but then, you know, there has been
 R 2.1.0 "patched"
 R 2.1.1
 R 2.1.1 "patched"

all of which had this buglet corrected.

Why don't you first upgrade, particularly from a x.y.0 version?