[R] error at R CMD check

[Duncan Murdoch]

carol white wrote:
> Hi,
> I generated an R package but at running R CMD check, I got the following error message for the first data file:
>
> *** installing help indices
>  >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'jamda'
>      Formats: text html latex example 
>   f1                           text    html    latex   example
>   f2                            text    html    latex   example
>  f3                                 text    html    latex   example
>   f4                            text    html    latex   example
>   f5                            text    html    latex   example
>   f6                      text    html    latex   example
> too many pairs of braces in file 'data1.Rd' at /usr/lib64/R/share/per
> l/R/Rdconv.pm line 295, <$rdfile> line 7076.
> ERROR: building help failed for package ‘my_package’
>
> Should the data sets be in a specific format? Mine contains data in float seperated by tab with column names and row names. No description in DESCRIPTIOn file yet.
>   

data1.Rd shouldn't be a dataset, it should be a help file describing a 
dataset.

In a more recent version of R you might get a more informative error 
message, telling you where the error was in that file.

Duncan Murdoch