[R] ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 19/07/2015 6:03 PM, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> I tried in vain to execute
> 
> R CMD  install /Users/hoffmann/R/cwhmisc  ('cwhmisc' is the package name)
> 
> * installing to library 
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library’
> * installing *source* package ‘cwhmisc’ ...
> ** R
> Error : '\&' ist eine unbekannte Escape-Sequenz in der Zeichenkette 
> beginnend mit ""\&"
> ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package ‘cwhmisc’
> * removing 
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/cwhmisc’
> * restoring previous 
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/cwhmisc’
> 
> under
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: OS X 10.7.5 (Lion)
> 
> locale:
> [1] C
> 
> attached base packages:
>   [1] tools     stats4    splines   parallel  compiler  grid stats
>   [8] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
>   [1] survival_2.38-1    spatial_7.3-9      rpart_4.1-9 nnet_7.3-9
>   [5] mgcv_1.8-6         nlme_3.1-120       foreign_0.8-63 codetools_0.2-11
>   [9] cluster_2.0.1      class_7.3-12       boot_1.3-16 Matrix_1.2-1
> [13] MASS_7.3-40        KernSmooth_2.23-14 cwhmisc_6.0 lattice_0.20-31
> 
> Strategy of mine:
> - search the net :
> - grep for '\&'  : to no avail
> - remove ~/.Rprofile : no success (it contained only 
> 'options(repos=c(CRAN="http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/"))' anyway)
> - change CRAN mirror in .Rprofile : no success
> - check vignette : nothing
> 
> - R CMD  check --as-cran /Users/hoffmann/R/cwhmisc : Installation failed.
>    00install.out reads (also) Error : '\&' is an unrecognized escape in 
> character string starting ""\&"
> ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package 'cwhmisc'
> 
> What could be a way out of this maze?
> 

You should build (to a *.tar.gz tarball) first.  That will probably succeed.

Then try to install the tarball.  That will probably fail with the same
error as above.  If so, make it available to someone else to try.

Duncan Murdoch