[Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Mon Mar 24 15:49:55 CET 2014
>>>>> Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:37:57 -0500 writes:
> 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
I see. Now try
options(error=recover)
tools:::.build_packages("<your_source_package_path>/pRRophetic")
> ERROR: installing package indices failed
> * removing '/tmp/Rtmp6cwCZH/Rinst2f8f69e1ee/pRRophetic'
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