It would appear that printing the error message to stderr() is what is causing the build to fail; replace
try(stop('err')) with cat('Error in try(stop("err")) : err\n', file = stderr()) and I get the same failure. Best, luke On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Martin Morgan wrote: > A vignette in <pkg>/inst/doc with > > \documentclass[]{article} > \begin{document} > <<test>>= > try(stop('err')) > @ > \end{document} > > produces an error with R CMD build <pkg>: > > ... > ** building package indices ... > * DONE (testPkg) > * creating vignettes ... ERROR > Error in try(stop("err")) : err > > This is not seen with Sweave alone. > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.5.0 beta (2007-04-11 r41127) > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > locale: > LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US;LC_COLLATE=en_US;LC_MONETARY=en_US;LC_MESSAGES=en_US;LC_PAPER=en_US;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" > [7] "base" > > > -- Luke Tierney Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel