Did you edit the description file and the namespace file and the  Rd files?

Although my tutorial is for windows if you follow steps 8 thru 10 on mac it
should work

http://stevemosher.wordpress.com/step-8-the-sample-package/



On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Noah Silverman <noahsilverman@ucla.edu>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to build a package using R 2.15.0 on OS X
>
> I am getting a generic failure when performing a cran type check on the
> package.  Even with a very simple test package, it still fails int he same
> place.
>
> Example:
>
> In R:
> rm(list=ls())
> foo <- function(x){print(x)}
> package.skeleton(name="foo")
>
> Then, at the command line:
> R CMD build foo
> R CMD check --as-cran foo_1.0.tar.gz
>
> <Some output not included here>
> * checking whether package ‘foo’ can be installed … ERROR
> Installation failed.
> See ‘foo.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
>
> Looking at the 00install.out file, I see:
>
> * installing *source* package ‘foo’ ...
> ** R
> Error in parse(outFile) : 5949:10: unexpected symbol
> 5948:     c(01, 00, 00, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00,
> 5949:     e0, 3f
>              ^
> ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package ‘foo’
>
>
> Can anyone help explain what is happening here?  This is the most generic
> and empty package I can think of, so not sure why a build is failing.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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