On 17/12/2015 9:06 AM, Michael Felt wrote:
More experimenting with calling commands:
  > tools:::foobar()
Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!
  > tools::foobar()
Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!

These both do a loadNamespace("tools").

  > Tools:::foobar()
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'Tools'
  > loadNamespace(tools)
Error in loadNamespace(tools) : object 'tools' not found

Those are expected, and unrelated.

  > loadNamespace("tools")
Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!

This shouldn't happen. In a previous post you listed a long list of warnings about packages not being loaded; that's likely a serious problem, but I don't know if it is the cause or a consequence of this one. Something is seriously wrong with the startup. You could try debugging setup_Rmainloop in <src/main/main.c>. to see if any warnings are being generated there. There shouldn't be any.

Duncan Murdoch

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On 17-Dec-15 18:02, Michael Felt wrote:
I have been struggling with this error message - and think I finally
understand it's context.

Start

Line by line debugging shows me the function works:

...
saveRDS(val, mapfile)
val
$variables
$variables$IANA_HTTP_status_code_db
[1]    0 1256

$variables$IANA_URI_scheme_db
[1] 1256 3458

$variables$table_of_HTTP_status_codes
[1] 4714  830


$references
named list()

$compressed
[1] TRUE

mapfile
[1] "./library/tools/R/sysdata.rdx"
[1] + Stopped (SIGTSTP)         R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_ALL=C
./bin/R --vanilla
root@x065:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-3.2.3]ls -l ./library/tools/R/sysdata.rdx
-rw-r--r--   1 root     33              193 Dec 17 16:49
./library/tools/R/sysdata.rdx
root@x065:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-3.2.3]cat ./library/tools/R/sysdata.rdx
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root@x065:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-3.2.3]
root@x065:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-3.2.3]gzip -dc
./library/tools/R/sysdata.rdx
X
j>      names   IANA_HTTP_status_code_db IANA_URI_scheme_db
table_of_HTTP_status_codesþÿþ
ÿ               variables
references
compressedþroot@x065:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-3.2.3]fg
  R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_ALL=C ./bin/R --vanilla


e
<environment: 110dbf620>
destDir
[1] "./library/tools/R"
compress
[1] TRUE
debug(tools:::makeLazyLoadDB(e, file.path(destDir, "sysdata"),
compress = compress))
Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!
tools:::makeLazyLoadDB(e, file.path(destDir, "sysdata"), compress =
compress)
Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!


So, at the end - my gut-feeling is that the error messages is not
about the arguments, but us related to the "tools:::foo".

Where should I look next? It goes a bit beyond me to know where in R
"tools:::foo" is being parsed.
Guessing here - but might be related to the switch from 32-bit to
64-bit AND that PowerPC is BigEndian rather than LittleEndian? Could
also be absolutely wrong, way off base, etc. --> shoot me down!

Thanks,
Michael

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