[Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?
Paul Geeleher
paulgeeleher at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 15:37:57 CET 2014
Hey Martin,
Thanks for your reply. I actually have documentation, but I pasted a
version of the output that was created when I removed the .Rd files
(as I suspected they may be causing the problem). Here's the output
when the man files are all included (its more or less the same):
$ R CMD build --verbose r_package_files/
Warning: unknown option '--verbose'
* checking for file 'r_package_files/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'pRRophetic':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to build vignettes
-----------------------------------
* installing *source* package 'pRRophetic' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: replacing previous import by 'genefilter::Anova' when loading
'pRRophetic'
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, :
line 1 did not have 38 elements
ERROR: installing package indices failed
* removing '/tmp/Rtmp6cwCZH/Rinst2f8f69e1ee/pRRophetic'
-----------------------------------
ERROR: package installation failed
Thanks again,
Paul.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at gmail.com>
>>>>>> on Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:04:29 -0500 writes:
>
> > Hey all, I'm currently trying to build an R package and
> > don't really know what to make of the error message I'm
> > getting. I couldn't find anything helpful online so
> > hopefully somebody here can give me a couple of
> > pointers. I see the following when I try to build:
>
> > s$ R CMD build --verbose r_package_files/
> > Warning: unknown option '--verbose'
> > * checking for file 'r_package_files/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> > * preparing 'pRRophetic':
> > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> > * installing the package to build vignettes
> > -----------------------------------
> > * installing *source* package 'pRRophetic' ...
> > ** R
> > ** data
> > ** inst
> > ** preparing package for lazy loading
> > Warning: replacing previous import by 'genefilter::Anova' when loading
> > 'pRRophetic'
>
> > ** help
> > No man pages found in package 'pRRophetic'
>
> Well, this could be it. It may well be that we (R authors) do
> require some man pages, and I would not disagree with such a requirement.
>
> Do provide at least a man/pRRophetic-package.Rd file
> if nothing else.
>
> You can use promptPackage() to create a prototype for such a
> file easily.
>
> Martin
>
> > *** installing help indices
> > ** building package indices
> > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, :
> > line 1 did not have 38 elements
> > ERROR: installing package indices failed
>
>
>
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> > Paul.
>
>
>
> > --
> > Dr. Paul Geeleher, PhD
> > Section of Hematology-Oncology
> > Department of Medicine
> > The University of Chicago
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> > KCBD, Room 7144
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The University of Chicago
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