[R] Rcmd check Error help

[McGehee, Robert]

R-help,
I'm the primary developer for an increasingly large R package with over
three thousand lines of code. Unfortunately, do the complexity of the
code, I sometimes am required to change several interoperating parts of
the package before testing for bugs and performance. And sometimes
unnoticed syntax errors slip in that cause Rcmd check / INSTALL to fail
with such messages as:

Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 223
Execution halted

My question: what file should I be checking for line 223? When running
Rcmd INSTALL, the previous version is restored on an install fail, so I
can't check the install directory, the Rcmd check directory only
produces two log files, and my R-package has at least a dozen files to
choose from.

Aside from brute force commenting out file by file until the syntax
error disappears (certainly a wasteful use of time), how can I find out
where my error is?

Thank you,
Robert

> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    2              
minor    0.1            
year     2004           
month    11             
day      15             
language R    
       
Robert McGehee
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