From therneau at mayo.edu  Wed Nov 12 20:11:09 2014
From: therneau at mayo.edu (Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:11:09 -0600
Subject: [Rd] Problem with  build and check
Message-ID: <58e5f6$jk252p@ironport9.mayo.edu>

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.

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.



[Rd] Problem with build and check
Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D.