Problem with build and check

On 12/11/2014 2:11 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:

I am getting failure of build and check, for an Rd file that has a long
argument list.
Guess diagnosis: a quoted string beyond a certain point in the argument
list is fatal.

No, the problem is that % is a comment marker in .Rd.  You need to escape
those in the dateformat default.  Apparently
prompt() doesn't know this...

Duncan Murdoch

Example:  Use the function below, create an Rd file for it with prompt().
Move the .Rd
file to the man directory (no need to edit it) and try building

dart.control <- function(server=c("production", "integration",
"development",
                                    "http"),
                           out.poll.duration = 5,
                           out.poll.increase = 1.1,
                           out.poll.max = 30,
                           out.poll.timeout = 3600,
                           netrc.path,
                           netrc.server = "ldap",
                           rtype = c("xml", "json"),
                           dateformat= "%Y-%m-%d") {

      server <- match.arg(server)
      server
}

I created a package "dummy" with only this function, and get the following
on my Linux box.

tmt-local2021% R CMD build dummy
* checking for file ?dummy/DESCRIPTION? ... OK
* preparing ?dummy?:
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
Warning: newline within quoted string at dart.control.Rd:11
Warning: /tmp/RtmpjPjz9V/Rbuild398d6e382572/dummy/man/dart.control.Rd:46:
unexpected
section header '\value'
Warning: newline within quoted string at dart.control.Rd:11
Error in
parse_Rd("/tmp/RtmpjPjz9V/Rbuild398d6e382572/dummy/man/dart.control.Rd", :
    Unexpected end of input (in " quoted string opened at
dart.control.Rd:88:16)
Execution halted

Session info for my version

  > sessionInfo()

R Under development (unstable) (2014-10-30 r66907)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=C
   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base


Terry T.