[R-pkg-devel] Issue of itemize in man file

[J C Nash]

I'm doing a major update of the optimx package and things were going relatively
smoothly until this weekend when files that have passed win-builder gave NOTEs
on r-devel for several manual (.Rd) files.
The NOTE is of the form

> * checking Rd files ... NOTE
> checkRd: (-1) fnchk.Rd:40-41: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
> checkRd: (-1) fnchk.Rd:43: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
> checkRd: (-1) fnchk.Rd:45: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly


The source of this looks like

   \item{msg}{A text string giving information about the result of the function check: Messages and
     the corresponding values of \code{excode} are:
       \itemize{
         \item{fnchk OK;}{ \code{excode} = 0;
                        \code{infeasible} = FALSE}
         \item{Function returns INADMISSIBLE;}
                     { \code{excode} = -1; \code{infeasible} = TRUE}
      ...
     }

I've not seen this before, nor does a search give any hits.

Does anyone have any ideas? Or is this a glitch in r-devel as things are tried out.?

I don't get the NOTE on win-builder R-release nor on local R CMD check. Note that the
\itemize is to give a second-level list i.e., for expanding output of one of the
\value objects returned, namely the return codes.

Best,

John Nash