Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 28/10/2010 7:54 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running into the error below when doing "R CMD INSTALL >> MyPackage.tar.gz". This didn't use to be this way and I am at a loss as >> to where this might be coming from. Any pointers where to look? >> >> Joh >> >> ** building package indices ... >> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, >> na.strings, >> : >> line 1 did not have 8 elements >> ERROR: installing package indices failed >> > > You may get more informative error information if you do the install > from within R. Supposing you've used setwd() to go to the directory > where your package lives, try > > install.packages("MyPackage.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source") > > If that fails, then traceback() will tell you where the failure happened. > > Duncan Murdoch
Thanks for the pointer, but there doesn't seem to be more information ... > install.packages("MyPackage.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source") Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) * installing *source* package ‘MyPackage’ ... ** R ** data ** demo ** exec ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ... Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : line 1 did not have 8 elements ERROR: installing package indices failed * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/MyPackage’ * restoring previous ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/MyPackage’ Warning message: In install.packages("MyPackage.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") : installation of package 'MyPackage.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status > traceback() No traceback available ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.