Yep, found it.  I was missing a carriage return in the generator so the
closing '}' was ending up on the line above with a comment.

Thanks again.



On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Timothy W. Cook <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Duncan.  Exactly what I needed.  A push in the right direction to
> finding it.
> I've already found the file and I am sure to find the problem child soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Duncan Murdoch 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On 18/05/2014, 12:54 PM, Timothy W. Cook wrote:
>>
>>> This is the error I get attempting to build and install a package I
>>> wrote.
>>>
>>> I am using R Studio (but I did try with R CMDs as well).
>>>
>>> The file that is blamed in the error is the last file alphabetically.
>>>  If I
>>> remove that file.  I get the same error on the remaining last file
>>> alphabetically.  So my guess is that it isn't actually one of these
>>> files.
>>>   However, I have no clue how to troubleshoot this problem.  I am quite
>>> new
>>> to R.
>>>
>>
>> This indicates that you open a block using "{" (or perhaps "[" or "("),
>> but never close it.  Unfortunately the parser doesn't tell you where the
>> opening brace was.
>>
>> A quick way to locate which file is to parse your source files one at a
>> time; e.g.
>>
>> for (f in list.files("somedir/R", full.names=TRUE)) parse(f)
>>
>> This will get an error on the first file with unmatched braces.  It won't
>> tell you where to look in that file, but it's usually not too hard to find
>> that by looking.  There are ways to find the spot automatically, but
>> they're not trivial:  see the discussion of partial parse results in
>> ?parse, and fill in a bunch of blanks.  Here without much explanation is an
>> example.
>>
>> f <- "some file with unbalanced braces"
>> text <- readLines(f)
>> src <- srcfile(text)
>> parse(text=text, srcfile=src)  # Generates error
>>
>> d <- getParseData(src)
>> d[d$token == "'{'" && d$parent == 0,]
>>
>> This will print something like
>>
>>     line1 col1 line2 col2  id parent token terminal text
>> 217    37    3    37    3 217      0   '{'     TRUE    {
>>
>> telling you that the brace on line 37 was never matched.  If you don't
>> find anything, try other kinds of parens or brackets, though they are less
>> likely.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>>> I built a generator to create this R pkg.  But it is based on a very
>>> similar one that works okay that I built by hand.
>>>
>>> They are available in their entirety on GitHub at:
>>> https://github.com/mlhim/R_test_prj
>>>
>>> The one that works is:  ccdTest244AllDatatypes299a8123d9f7
>>>
>>> The one that doesn't work is: ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f
>>>
>>> The 00install.out file isn't particularly enlightening:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -----------------
>>> * installing *source* package 
>>> ‘ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f’
>>> ...
>>>
>>> ** R
>>> Error in parse(outFile) :
>>>
>>> /home/tim/MLHIM/git/R_test_prj/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0
>>> 036f.Rcheck/00_pkg_src/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f/R/meta :43:0:
>>> unexpected end of input
>>> 41:     return('
>>> http://www.ccdgen.com/ccdlib/ccd-31598ac4-eac4-4f45-928e-
>>> a5c7aca0036f.xsd')
>>> 42: }
>>>     ^
>>> ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package
>>> ‘ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f’
>>> * removing
>>> ‘/home/tim/MLHIM/git/R_test_prj/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0
>>> 036f.Rcheck/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f’
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> * installing *source* package 
>>> ‘ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f’
>>> ...
>>>
>>> ** R
>>> Error in parse(outFile) :
>>>
>>> /home/tim/MLHIM/git/R_test_prj/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0
>>> 036f.Rcheck/00_pkg_src/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f/R/meta :43:0:
>>> unexpected end of input
>>> 41:     return('
>>> http://www.ccdgen.com/ccdlib/ccd-31598ac4-eac4-4f45-928e-
>>> a5c7aca0036f.xsd')
>>> 42: }
>>>     ^
>>> ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package
>>> ‘ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f’
>>> * removing
>>> ‘/home/tim/MLHIM/git/R_test_prj/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0
>>> 036f.Rcheck/ccdTest244AllDatatypesa5c7aca0036f’
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Any help  is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> This is part of a large open source effort in healthcare interoperability
>>> and data analysis.
>>>
>>> Thanks In Advance,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================
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>>> MLHIM http://www.mlhim.org
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