[R] R CMD check

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 23:20:30 CEST 2011


On 05/10/2011 4:46 PM, Jeff Breiwick wrote:
> Dear R-Group,
>
> I have a function that sorts a data frame and oneo of the lines in the
> function is:
>
> vars<- unlist(strsplit(formc, "[\\+\\-]"))
>
> The function works fine and the above line is always reached. However, when I
> include the function in a package and run "R CMD check pkgname" it gives this
> error message:
>
> '\+' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "[\+"
> Execution halted
>
> I am running Win 7, R-2.13.1 and run R CMD ... from a command line, using
> shell ("start cmd").
>
> I didn't write the function but it has always run fine without any errors.
>
> Is there a way to resolve this so it will pass the package check?

That looks strange.  Can you put your package source online somewhere so 
we could try it?

Duncan Murdoch



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