[Rd] Improve error message for bad NAMESPACE file?

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Wed Feb 8 08:37:42 CET 2006


On  7 Feb 2006, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> I suspect this line in namespace.R:
>
> }
> stop(gettextf("unknown namespace directive: %s", deparse(e)),
> call. = FALSE, domain = FALSE)
>
> Does domain=NA solve this?

Seems to me for me.  I now see an error message like:

   * Installing *source* package 'goodbye' ...
   ** R
   ** save image
   Error: unknown namespace directive: foo("foo")
   Execution halted                                   

which is quite helpful.

Thanks,

+ seth



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