Re: [Rd] parse_Rd raises error when example section contains a quoted percent character

2011-04-12 Thread peter dalgaard
On Apr 12, 2011, at 18:24 , Jeffrey Horner wrote: > 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()

Re: [Rd] parse_Rd raises error when example section contains a quoted percent character

2011-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Horner
Thanks for setting me straight, Kurt. Problem solved. Jeff On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Kurt Hornik 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

[Rd] parse_Rd raises error when example section contains a quoted percent character

2011-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Horner
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_R