Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0510202234110.8052@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-10-20T21:39:19Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Error in building package indices
In-Reply-To: <657D11942721774D8BE305439F3E8E5801653246@groamrexm01.amer.pfizer.com>
There is not much context here, but it seems this is whilst trying to do
an install. I would expect R CMD INSTALL to fail in the same place.
It appears to indicate a bug in one of your datasets.
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jain, Nitin wrote:
> Dear R-devel members,
>
> We are building a new package (GeneticsBase) for analysis of genetic data .
> While doing "R CMD check with R-2.1.1, I am getting the following error:
>
> ** building package indices ...
> Error in "colnames<-"(`*tmp*`, value = c("family", "pid", "father",
> "mother", :
> length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
> Execution halted
> ERROR: installing package indices failed
> ERROR
> Installation failed.
>
> We believe that this could be due to package versioning, but are not sure.
Not sure what you mean here. No versioning is being used by R CMD check.
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