[R] Rdindex truncating titles?

[Rolf Turner]

When building packages these days I keep getting warnings from
"R CMD build" to the effect that INDEX is not up to date.  The
INDEXes always seem to be up do to date to *me*.

Then I thought to compare the INDEX from the package source with
the INDEX in the installed package (after building with the --force
flag set).

Doing a diff on the old INDEX (saved outside the source package directory
so that --force didn't obliterate it) and the new INDEX in the installed
package directory, I got:

> 7c7
> <                         in terms of the NCEA gpa.
> ---
> >                         in terms of the NCEA
> 19c19
> <                         number of successes ("old" and "new").
> ---
> >                         number of successes
> 32,33c32
> <                         doing calculations pertaining to the analysis
> <                         of data sets in the Starpath project.
> ---
> >                         doing calculations


Notice that the lines in the ``new'' INDEX are truncated versions of
those in the ``old'' INDEX.

This is not as it should be, nicht wahr?  Can it be fixed?  Can *I*
do anything to fix it?  I am 99.99% confident that things weren't this
way in the past --- and that in fact the ``old'' INDEX was built using
the Rdindex() function.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

P. S.:

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_NZ.UTF-8/en_NZ.UTF-8/C/C/en_NZ.UTF-8/en_NZ.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] tools     datasets  utils     stats     graphics  grDevices methods  
[8] base     

other attached packages:
[1] misc_0.0-13     gtools_2.6.2    spatstat_1.20-5 deldir_0.0-12  
[5] mgcv_1.6-2      fortunes_1.4-0  MASS_7.3-8     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.12.0        lattice_0.19-13    Matrix_0.999375-44 nlme_3.1-97