[R] R CMD check: building indices error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Didier Leibovici wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I am updating a package because of data format in data folder. So I just
> change an extension of a file to .txt ... nothing more.
> I get this error on the R CMD check
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices ...
> Error in read.table(zfile, header = TRUE, as.is = FALSE) :
>   more columns than column names
> ERREUR : installing package indices failed
>
> Note that the R CMD build goes through.

It would do, that only packages the files.

> The only thing is the sources and files comes from Windows VISTA and I
> ma running the R CMD on a Mac OS X 64b but the package has no binaries
> (just R code). Could it be related to the 32 /64 ...?

You have an invalid data file in your data directory, hence the 
error.  Most likely a .tab or .txt file, but review ?data carefully.

> cheers,
>
> Didier
>
> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
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> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
>
> Also I update the Snow Leopard yesterday ... should I reinstall R with
> the new kernel?
>  Version du syst?me :    Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
>   Version du noyau :    Darwin 10.7.0

Np, but you should update your R in any case.

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