[Rd] R CMD check and error in an \Sexpr in an Rd file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:

> I do not see it on main CRAN home page.

No, but see the announcement on R-announce this morning:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-October/294203.html

Things which need human intervention can take some hours: the CRAN 
front page and binary distributions are two of those.

> Do you mean http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz ?
>
> On 31/10/2011 14:19, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 31.10.2011 13:13, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
>>> Thank you Duncan.
>>> 
>>> I tried with:
>>> * using R version 2.14.0 RC (2011-10-24 r57417)
>>> * using platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>> 
>>> But I still get the errors for verbatim multiline and the strange error
>>> if an error occurs in \Sexpr.
>>> Is your patch included in this version? I will try now with
>>> R-rc_2011-10-27_r57452.tar.gz.
>> 
>> Try R-2.14.0, it is already released. Or R-devel.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Renaud
>>> 
>>> On 28/10/2011 17:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>> On 28/10/2011 10:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>> On 28/10/2011 10:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > another Rd related issue I encountered is that if an error occurs
>>>>> in an
>>>>> > \Sexpr in an Rd file, then on get the following error:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > * checking for portable compilation flags in Makevars ... OK
>>>>> > * checking for portable use of $(BLAS_LIBS) and $(LAPACK_LIBS) ... OK
>>>>> > * checking examples ... ERROR
>>>>> > Error in paste(before, x, after, sep = "") : object 'exfile' not found
>>>>> > Execution halted
>>>>> >
>>>>> > To reproduce, put a call like this in an Rd section:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > \Sexpr[results=verbatim, stage=render]{x<- 1; stop("sexpr error")}
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The strange thing is that it occurs at the example checking step.
>>>>> > Not sure why it does not break before.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thank you.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Renaud
>>>>> >
>>>>> > PS: I am on R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) - x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>>>> (64-bit)
>>>>> >
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would update to 2.13.2 patched, or the release candidate of 2.14.0.
>>>> 
>>>> Oops, sorry, 2.13.2 is "final", so I didn't backport the patch. 2.14.0
>>>> is what you should get.
>>>> 
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> 
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