[R] R CMD in 2.11.1 error

[Duncan Murdoch]

Andy Zhu wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I have a set of user defined package which I have installed in 2.8.1 for quite some time.  I installed 2.11.0 and 2.11.1 a couple of days ago while still having 2.8.1 version in my system. For the package, package.skeleton works fine in R 2.11.  However, it comes problem when I run Rcmd check/intall. The  intall.out shows below.
>
> I further tested that I reran R-2.8.1/bin/R CMD check in 2.8.1.  it still works.  Then I ran and test the doomed function, gzWrite, in R-2.11.1/binRgui, it also works fine.  So, is this the problem in R-2.11.1/bin/Rcmd itself? How do I fix it?  I have MinGW, Perl, etc. installed in my system.
>
>   

The problem is in the help file, not in the R code.  You need to look 
somewhere near line 92 of quantplus/man/gzWrite.Rd.

Duncan Murdoch
> I also attached my function gzWrite below.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> 00check.out:
> ************************************************
> * install options are ' --no-html'
>
> * installing *source* package 'quantplus' ...
> ** R
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> Warning: newline within quoted string at gzWrite.Rd:92
> Warning: ./man/gzWrite.Rd:99: unknown macro '\n'
> Warning: newline within quoted string at gzWrite.Rd:92
> Error in parse_Rd("./man/gzWrite.Rd", encoding = "unknown", ...) : 
>   Unexpected end of input (in " quoted string opened at gzWrite.Rd:99:46)
> ERROR: installing Rd objects failed for package 'quantplus'
> * removing 'd:/developer/projects/quant+/package_builder/quantplus.Rcheck/quantplus'
>
> the problem function:
> **************************************************
> gzWrite = 
> # write out a data frame into a gzip file in the format of write.table
> function(ds, outdir, outpfx, datepfx, sep='\t', quote=TRUE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=TRUE, na='NA', append=FALSE) {
> if (F) {
>     ds = ds.price;
>     outdir = pathPrice;
>     outpfx = paste(pfx.price,'_',sep='');
>     datepfx = fdate;
>     sep = '\t';
>     quote = TRUE;
>     row.names = FALSE;
>     col.names = TRUE;
>     na = 'NULL';
>     append = FALSE;
> }
>     file.out = paste(outdir, '\\', outpfx, datepfx, '.gz', sep='');
>     file.tmp = paste(outdir, '\\', outpfx, datepfx, '.txt',sep='');
>     write.table(ds, file=file.tmp, sep=sep, quote=quote, row.names=row.names, col.names=col.names, na=na, append=append);
>     zz = gzfile(file.out, 'w');
>     raw = file(file.tmp, 'r');
>     cat(readLines(raw), file=zz, append=F, sep='\n');
>     close(zz);
>     close(raw);
>     unlink(file.tmp);
>
>     invisible(NA);
> }
>
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