[R] Interpreting messages when building packages

[Johannes Huesing]

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> [Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 09:57:50PM CEST]:

> Does a plain install succeed?

No, the error messages look familiar:

* Installing to library '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
* Installing *source* package 'dynalc' ...
** libs
WARNING: no source files found
chmod: Zugriff auf „/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/dynalc/libs/*“ nicht möglich: No such file or directory
** R
** data
** inst
** help
chmod: Zugriff auf „/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/dynalc/man/dynalc.Rd.gz“ nicht möglich: No such file or directory
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'dynalc'
     Formats: text html latex example
** building package indices ...
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  line 12 did not have 19 elements
Calls: <Anonymous> ... <Anonymous> -> switch -> assign -> read.table -> scan
Execution halted
ERROR: installing package indices failed
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/dynalc'



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