[R] [SOLVED] Re: Install Error

Johannes Graumann johannes_graumann at web.de
Thu Oct 28 14:59:37 CEST 2010


Johannes Graumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running into the error below when doing "R CMD INSTALL
> MyPackage.tar.gz". This didn't use to be this way and I am at a loss as to
> where this might be coming from. Any pointers where to look?
> 
> Joh
> 
> ** building package indices ...
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,
> : 
>   line 1 did not have 8 elements
> ERROR: installing package indices failed

I was working on new functionality and had a no-zipped data file in the 
"data" directory ... chance finding in google put me on that track ...
Works again.

Joh



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