[Rd] "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

[Paul Geeleher]

Hey Martin,

So by trial and error, I figured out that the reason for this was that
there was a text file in the "data/" directory that shouldn't have
been there. Thanks for your help!

Paul.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Martin,
>
> The output looks similar:
>
>
>> options(error=recover)
>> tools:::.build_packages("pRRophetic")
> * checking for file 'pRRophetic/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/Rtmpe59RbM/Rinst54e22da5e85a/pRRophetic'
>       -----------------------------------
> ERROR: package installation failed
>
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Paul.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Martin Maechler
> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>>> 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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> Department of Medicine
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