[R-pkg-devel] roxygen2 7.0.1 backslash escape error

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/11/2019 9:59 a.m., Yoni wrote:
> Thank you for the advice.
> 
> I think that (a) is a problem to implement since the new roxygen2 is on the
> CRAN systems and I can not control which version they are using to build
> the package in the checks.

I don't think CRAN runs roxygen2 at all.  It tests based on the 
description of documentation in Writing R Extensions.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> I have gone with option (c), which is unfortunate since I will need to
> change my examples twice to accommodate a problem that another package,
> that has such a high degree of reverse dependency, has created.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 9:42 AM Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> You could (a) install the updated roxygen from github and rebuild the man/
>> files ; (b) manually edit the Rd files without using roxygen ; or (c)
>> remove the examples until you can apply the fix.
>>
>> On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 at 1:26 am, Yoni <yonicd using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I received a message from CRAN yesterday stating my package is erroring on
>>> all the systems all of a sudden.
>>>
>>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_texPreview.html
>>>
>>> After some investigation the root of the errors looks like it came from
>>> the
>>> new release of roxygen2 (7.0.1).
>>>
>>> https://github.com/r-lib/roxygen2/issues/990
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do in the interim to fix this problem since I do
>>> not know when this apparent bug fix will be pushed to CRAN, relieving my
>>> errors in the documentation builds, which could be beyond the warning
>>> period (2019-12-13), which the package will be removed from CRAN.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
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