[Rd] trace an Rd conversion error in R cmd check

Henrik Bengtsson hb at biostat.ucsf.edu
Sun Oct 16 14:58:23 CEST 2011


Hi.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Apologies if this is a very naive question.  Is there a way to see the
> particular Rd file being processed right before a warning/error
> occurs?  As far as I can tell, all my .Rd files use have names and
> titles and they are unique between Rd files (sometimes in a file I use
> something like \name{foo} \title{Foo}).  I seem to be able to convert
> files to latex using: R CMD Rdconv --type=latex on all my Rd files
> without problems.
>
> Here is the warning and error:
>
> * checking PDF version of manual ... ERROR
> Rd conversion errors:
> Warning in file(con, "r") :
>  file("") only supports open = "w+" and open = "w+b": using the former
> Error : : Sections \title, and \name must exist and be unique in Rd files

For what it is worth: I also get this error when I try to "R CMD
check" any of my many packages on R Under development (unstable)
(2011-10-13 r57231) on Windows 7.  It does not occur with R version
2.14.0 alpha (2011-10-14 r57245).  I haven't had time to troubleshoot
this and I figured I'll wait a few revisions.

The error does not occur when using tools::checkRd(), e.g.

> setwd("R.methodsS3/man/");
> filenames <- list.files(pattern="[.]Rd$");
> dummy <- sapply(pathnames, FUN=tools::checkRd);
>

/Henrik

>
> I am using:
>
> R Under development (unstable) (2011-10-11 r57214)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> on Windows 7 with Rtools 2.14 and MikTeX 2.9
>
> Any suggestions or pointers to manuals/documentation would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>
> --
> Joshua Wiley
> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
> Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
> University of California, Los Angeles
> https://joshuawiley.com/
>
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