>>>>> Marc Schwartz (via MN) writes: > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 22:16 +1000, Robert King wrote: >> Here is another thing that might help work out what is happening. If I >> use --no-install, ade4 actually fails as well, in the same way as zipfR. >> >> [Desktop]$ R CMD check --no-install ade4 >> * checking for working latex ... OK >> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/ade4.Rcheck' >> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) >> * checking for file 'ade4/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >> * this is package 'ade4' version '1.4-1' >> * checking if this is a source package ... OK >> * checking package directory ... OK >> * checking for portable file names ... OK >> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK >> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR >> >> [Desktop]$ R CMD check --no-install zipfR >> * checking for working latex ... OK >> * using log directory '/home/rak776/Desktop/zipfR.Rcheck' >> * using Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) >> * checking for file 'zipfR/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >> * checking extension type ... Package >> * this is package 'zipfR' version '0.6-0' >> * checking if this is a source package ... OK >> * checking package directory ... OK >> * checking for portable file names ... OK >> * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK >> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
> <snip> > Robert, > I tried the process last night (my time) using the initial instructions > on my FC5 system with: > $ R --version > R version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-08-06 r38829) > Copyright (C) 2006 R Development Core Team > I could not replicate the problem. > However, this morning, with your additional communication: > $ R CMD check --no-install zipfR_0.6-0.tar.gz > * checking for working latex ... OK > * using log directory '/home/marcs/Downloads/zipfR.Rcheck' > * using Version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-08-06 r38829) > * checking for file 'zipfR/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > * checking extension type ... Package > * this is package 'zipfR' version '0.6-0' > * checking if this is a source package ... OK > * checking package directory ... OK > * checking for portable file names ... OK > * checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK > * checking top-level files ... OK > * checking index information ... OK > * checking package subdirectories ... OK > * checking R files for syntax errors ... OK > * checking R files for library.dynam ... OK > * checking S3 generic/method consistency ... OK > * checking replacement functions ... OK > * checking foreign function calls ... OK > * checking Rd files ... OK > * checking Rd cross-references ... WARNING > Warning in grep(pattern, x, ignore.case, extended, value, fixed, > useBytes) : > input string 70 is invalid in this locale > * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING > Warning in grep(pattern, x, ignore.case, extended, value, fixed, > useBytes) : > input string 70 is invalid in this locale > All user-level objects in a package should have documentation entries. > See chapter 'Writing R documentation files' in manual 'Writing R > Extensions'. > * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK > * checking Rd \usage sections ... OK > * checking DVI version of manual ... OK > WARNING: There were 2 warnings, see > /home/marcs/Downloads/zipfR.Rcheck/00check.log > for details > So I am wondering if this raises the possibility of a locale issue on > your FC5 system resulting in a problem reading DESCRIPTION files? It > may be totally unrelated, but one never knows I suppose. Mine is: > $ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > HTH, > Marc Schwartz That's a bug in tools:::Rd_aliases (it needs to preprocess the Rd lines, which re-encodes if necessary and possible). I'll commit a fix later today. Thanks for spotting this. Best -k ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.