From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Wed Nov 25 13:01:02 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:01:02 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Error in parse(outFile)
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Pamela McCaskie wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have made some changes to a package (SimHap) I wrote a couple of years
> ago, and it has passed R CMD check under windows, but under linux
> (ubuntu jaunty) I am getting the following error:
>
>  
>
> * installing *source* package 'SimHap' ...
>
> ** R
>
> Error in parse(outFile) : 2:1: unexpected $end
>
> ERROR: unable to collate files for package 'SimHap'
>   
>  
>
> Does anyone know what the "outFile" it is referring to here, and why
> this would be happening in a linux build, but not in windows. In both
> cases I'm using R 2.10.0.
>   

When installing a package, R collects all the source into one big file 
and parses it all at once.  The filename is stored internally in a 
variable called "outFile".

I don't know what would be causing this difference between Windows and 
Linux.  If you can send me a copy of the package offline I'll take a 
look later today.

Duncan Murdoch

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>
> Cheers
>
> Pam
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> Dr Pamela McCaskie
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> Assistant Professor
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> Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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> University of Western Australia
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[Rd] Error in parse(outFile)
Duncan Murdoch