>>>>> "DoSa" == Dominick Samperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:52:36 -0400 writes:
DoSa> Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>> "DoSa" == Dominick Samperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>>> on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:07:29 -0400 writes:
>>>>>>>
>>
DoSa> Hello, I am encountering problems when there is a
DoSa> '%' character in package .Rd files. More
DoSa> precisely, CRAN is having problems with these
DoSa> characters when running check, whereas I am not
DoSa> seeing any problems under Linux and Windows. I
DoSa> did see these problems, and found that escaping
DoSa> the %'s fixes the problem in my testing, but
DoSa> apparently this does not fix the problem when
DoSa> check is run at CRAN.
>>
DoSa> I suspect that there are some compatibility
DoSa> problems between shells, TeX, or perl versions, or
DoSa> perhaps the check on CRAN goes through more levels
DoSa> of preprocessing?
>>
DoSa> I can probably fix this problem by removing all
DoSa> '%' chars from my .Rd files, but this doesn't seem
DoSa> like a very natural solution.
>>
>> definitely not. Other packages have them as well,
>> without giving any CRAN hickups
>>
>> No, you should find and fix the problem.
>>
DoSa> Any ideas?
>>
>> We need examples which -- at least for you -- produce the
>> problem. You could post a small tar file (mime-types 'application/x-tar'
>> or 'application/x-compressed-tar' are accepted for R-devel) if
>> you want.
>>
>> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>>
>>
DoSa> An example of the '% problem' is provided by the
DoSa> RcppExample.Rd file that is part of the RcppTemplate
DoSa> package (V4.2). There you will find:
DoSa> # Note that we need to escape the percent sign here...
DoSa> datestr <- c('2006-6-10', '2006-7-12', '2006-8-10')
DoSa> datevec <- as.Date(datestr, "\%Y-\%m-\%d") # date vector
which is perfect...
"Writing R Extensions" has always said you must escape them...
DoSa> Without the escaped '%' signs
you really get invalid examples, not just for example()
DoSa> I get an obscure error message when
DoSa> I run:
>> example(RcppExample)
DoSa> Here is the error message:
DoSa> Error in parse(file, n = -1, NULL, "?") : syntax error at
DoSa> 36:
DoSa> 37:
Now if I run 'R CMD check RcppTemplate' I see no problem.
In my eyes, everything is ok there.
So where exactly does CRAN (i.e. the CRAN machine that does the
daily checks) have a problem?
Maybe it's really a problem on that machine, than rather with
your *.Rd files ... :-)
Hmm, actually I now start wondering: Why did we ever start
talking about this at all? Isn't this something you have to settle
with Kurt, Fritz, or whomever.. ?
Regards,
Martin Maechler
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