Improve error message for bad NAMESPACE file?

If a user mis-types a directive in the NAMESPACE file, the error
message is quite cryptic.  If it was possible to report the offending
line/text that would likely give a valuable clue to the user.

Try putting the following line in NAMESPACE

foo("bar")

Then R CMD INSTALL says,

* Installing *source* package 'goodbye' ...
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error in gettext(domain, unlist(args)) : invalid 'domain' value
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'goodbye'
I suspect this line in namespace.R:

                }
                stop(gettextf("unknown namespace directive: %s", deparse(e)),
                     call. = FALSE, domain = FALSE)

Does domain=NA solve this?

platform       powerpc-apple-darwin8.4.0
arch           powerpc
os             darwin8.4.0
system         powerpc, darwin8.4.0
status         Under development (unstable)
major          2
minor          3.0
year           2006
month          02
day            05
svn rev        37270
language       R
version.string Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-02-05 r37270)

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+ seth

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Improve error message for bad NAMESPACE file?

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