Rd files must have a non-empty \title

Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 6:52 AM
> To: Assa Yeroslaviz
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Rd files must have a non-empty \title
> 
> On 10/05/2010 7:43 AM, Assa Yeroslaviz wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm trying to install a package I have built. This package contains
> three
> > scripts with various functions (S3 as well as S4 classes)
> >
> > I run at first the package.skeleton command with:
> >
> > > package.skeleton("affyAnalysis", namespace=TRUE, code_files
> =c("defS3.R",
> > "defS4.R", "qc.R"))
> >
> > affyAnalysis is the name of the supposed package and the three script
> are
> > listed at the end.
> > results:
> > Creating directories ...
> > Creating DESCRIPTION ...
> > Creating NAMESPACE ...
> > Creating Read-and-delete-me ...
> > Copying code files ...
> > Making help files ...
> > Done.
> > Further steps are described in './affyAnalysis/Read-and-delete-me'.
> > afterwards i tried to install the made package but i encountered a
> problem
> > with the RD files.
> >
> > As I am working on windows I did it with the R CMD Install -l
> > path/to/library affyAnalysis.
> > As a result I'm getting the error message:
> > C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\balt\Desktop>R CMD INSTALL
> affyAnalysis
> > * installing to library 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.11.0\library'
> > * installing *source* package 'affyAnalysis' ...
> > ** R
> > ** preparing package for lazy loading
> > ** help
> > Warning: ./man/affyAnalysis-package.Rd:35: All text must be in a
> section
> > Warning: ./man/affyAnalysis-package.Rd:36: All text must be in a
> section
> > Warning: ./man/z_-methods.Rd: \name should not contain !, | or @
> > *** installing help indices
> > Error in Rd_info(db[[i]]) : Rd files must have a non-empty \title.
> > See chapter 'Writing R documentation' in manual 'Writing R
> Extensions'.
> > * removing 'C:\Programme\R\R-2.11.0\library/affyAnalysis'
> >
> > My question is is there a way around it?
> > I don't want to publish this package. It's just a compendium of
> various
> > functions I often use, so i wrote them as a package.
> > How can I install this package under R-2.11.0 without so much trouble
> as
> > changing ALL of my RD files?
> >
> 
> You could delete them all (or move them to another directory).  You
> won't pass R CMD check, but it sounds as though you don't care about
> that.
> 
> Alternatively, you could write a small function to replace the comment
> asking for a title with a junk title.  Just loop over all the Rd files,
> read them, substitute for the default title line, and write them back.
> If you don't want informative help files, it's really not much work to
> make uninformative ones.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> > THX for the help
> >
> > Assa
> >
> > > R.version
> > platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch           i386
> > os             mingw32
> > system         i386, mingw32
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          11.0
> > year           2010
> > month          04
> > day            22
> > svn rev        51801
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
> >
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> >
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