Dear R-devel members, I'm in the process of building a package (akmisc) for my own use (Win XP, R 2.0.1 Patched - see details at end).
As I was adding functions (and hence more source .R files) to my package it got to the point were "R CMD check" failed with the following error (output has been cut). * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... WARNING Error in .try_quietly({ : Error: Unable to load R code in package 'akmisc' Execution halted See section 'Generic functions and methods' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual. In an attempt to figure out what went wrong I ran "R CMD INSTALL --build" and had a look a the file "akmisc" that had been installed in the "akmisc/R" folder in my default library. The contents of the file ended in (the function stuff was only for testing) "plotSymbols" <- function (fn=1) { ## Originally by Henrik Bengtsson ## modified by Rolf Turner ## Posted on R-Help 3 Feb 05 i <- 0:255 ncol <- 16 opar <- par(cex.axis = 0.7, mar = c(3, 3, 3, 3) + 0.1) plot(i%%ncol, 1 + i%/%ncol, pch=i, font=fn, xlab = "", ylab = "", axes = FALSE) axis(1, at = 0:15) axis(2, at = 1:16, labels = 0:15 * 16, las = 2) axis(3, at = 0:15) axis(4, at = 1:16, labels = 0:15 * 16 + 15, las = 2) par(opar) }"stuff" <- function(p){ return(0) } As it turns out, the source file plotSymbols.R did not end in an empty line, which caused an error only when there was another file after it (such as stuff.R - the last file I had just added). I consequently went back to "Writing R Extensions" (esp 1.1.4 Package subdirectories), but could not find any comment suggesting that files had to end with an empty line (or more). If I missed such a comment then I don't expect a response. But if I haven't then it may be useful if a comment is included in the documentation to maybe help others. Regards, Andreas OS: Windows XP Precompiled R binary (from CRAN) > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status Patched major 2 minor 0.1 year 2004 month 11 day 21 language R > _____________________________ Dr Andreas Kiermeier Statistician SARDI FOOD SAFETY PROGRAM 33 Flemington Street Glenside SA 5065 Phone: +61 8 8207 7884 Fax: +61 8 8207 7854 Mobile: 0423 028 565 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ The information in this e-mail and attachments (if any) may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken is prohibited. SARDI, The South Australian Research and Development Institute, is the research division of Primary Industries and Resources (SA) ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel