Thanks for setting me straight, Kurt. Problem solved.
Jeff On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@wu.ac.at> wrote: >>>>>> Jeffrey Horner writes: > > % is the Rd comment character, and almost always needs to be escaped. > > Best > -k > >> I was writing Rd documentation for a new package when I came across >> this issue. Here's the smallest example: > >>> library(tools) >>> cat("\\examples{x <- >>> '<%=rnorm(1)%>'}\n",file=file.path(tempdir(),'test.Rd')) >>> readLines(file.path(tempdir(),'test.Rd')) >> [1] "\\examples{x <- '<%=rnorm(1)%>'}" >>> parse_Rd(file.path(tempdir(),'test.Rd')) >> Error in parse_Rd(file.path(tempdir(), "test.Rd")) : >> Unexpected end of input (in ' quoted string opened at test.Rd:1:17) >> In addition: Warning message: >> In parse_Rd(file.path(tempdir(), "test.Rd")) : >> newline within quoted string at test.Rd:1 > >> If I take out the percent characters, parse_Rd succeeds: > >>> cat("\\examples{x <- '<=rnorm(1)>'}\n",file=file.path(tempdir(),'test.Rd')) >>> parse_Rd(file.path(tempdir(),'test.Rd')) >> \examples{x <- '<=rnorm(1)>'} > >> So is this intended behavior or a bug? I would like to use the percent >> sign in a quoted string as it is part of brew syntax, and I'm writing >> example code to demonstrate such. > >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.13.0 RC (2011-04-12 r55422) >> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) > >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >> attached base packages: >> [1] tools stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods >> [8] base > >> Jeff >> -- >> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner > >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel