[R] problem while building a package

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Renaud Lancelot wrote:

> Please reply to: lancelot at sentoo.sn
> because my address: renaud.lancelot at cirad.fr
> is broken (should be fixed soon...).
>
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status   Patched
> major    1
> minor    5.0
> year     2002
> month    05
> day      15
> language R
>
> win98 (sigh !)
>
> This is my first attempt to build a package so the question is probably
> trivial. I try to gather a small set of pure-R functions (5) and their
> help file (Rd format) in a package (rmisc) using tools provided by Pr
> Ripley (http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/tools.zip) and perl
> (ActivePerl-5.6.1). The make pkg command runs smoothly, but errors are
> found by make pkgcheck. The strange thing is that if I try to make a
> package with any one (and even up to 4) of the 5 functions, everything
> is ok (including make pkgcheck). The error msg from make pkgcheck is not
> informative (for me...): the last lines of the Rout file written in
> subdirectory check are:
> >
> > library('rmisc')
> Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 56
> Execution halted
>
> How can I debug this ? How can I find what is on line 56 ?

Look at library\\rmisc\R\\rmisc around line 56.


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