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

[Henrik Bengtsson]

To close this thread, this issue appears to have been solved in R
devel since at least r57339 (also confirmed with r57348).

/Henrik

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 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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