[R] [survMisc]: error message in examples of comp()

[Gerrit Eichner]

Hello, list members,

I have tried to contact the maintainer of the survMisc package, but my 
message could not be delivered. I can't get survMisc package to work as 
expected or documented, respectively. Maybe one of you has an idea 
regarding the following problem:

When, e.g., trying to executed the first few lines of code in the examples 
section of comp() (one of the package functions), i.e.,

> data(kidney,package="KMsurv")
> s1 <- survfit(Surv(time=time, event=delta) ~ type, data=kidney)
> comp(s1)


I receive the following error message:

Error in parse(text = t2) : <text>:1:8: unexpected input
1: paste( ``
             ^


Could this be an encoding-related issue inside the code? Does somebody 
have an idea where to look for a solution for this problem?

Below you'll find my survMisc version and R session info. Thanks for any 
support!

  Kind regards  --  Gerrit

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> citation( "survMisc")

To cite package .survMisc. in publications use:

   Chris Dardis (2014). survMisc: Miscellaneous functions for survival
   data.. R package version 0.4.2.
   http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=survMisc


> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

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

other attached packages:
[1] survMisc_0.4.2   rpart_4.1-8      data.table_1.9.2 ggplot2_1.0.0
[5] survival_2.37-7  fortunes_1.5-2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4     gam_1.09.1       grid_3.1.1
  [5] gtable_0.1.2     km.ci_0.5-2      KMsurv_0.1-5     MASS_7.3-33
  [9] munsell_0.4.2    plyr_1.8.1       proto_0.3-10     Rcpp_0.11.2
[13] reshape2_1.4     scales_0.2.4     stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.1.1