On 12/11/2014 2:36 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Duncan Murdoch
wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 2:11 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
>>
>> I am getting failure of build and check, for an Rd file that has a long
>> argument list.
>> Guess diagnosis: a quoted string beyond
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Duncan Murdoch
wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 2:11 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
>>
>> I am getting failure of build and check, for an Rd file that has a long
>> argument list.
>> Guess diagnosis: a quoted string beyond a certain point in the argument
>> list is fat
'Writing R Extensions', section 2.1 Rd format, says"
Comments run from a percent symbol % to the end of the line in all types of
text (as on the first line of the load example).
Because backslashes, braces and percent symbols have special meaning, to
enter them into text sometimes requires escape
On 12/11/2014 2:11 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
I am getting failure of build and check, for an Rd file that has a long
argument list.
Guess diagnosis: a quoted string beyond a certain point in the argument list is
fatal.
No, the problem is that % is a comment marker in .Rd. You need
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, "Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D." writes:
> I am getting failure of build and check, for an Rd file that has a long
> argument list.
> Guess diagnosis: a quoted string beyond a certain point in the argument list
> is fatal.
Another guess: should you not escape the '%'? That is,
I certainly have longer argument lists with no problem. More likely the
Rd file needs special consideration for %.
Paul
On 11/12/2014 02:11 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
I am getting failure of build and check, for an Rd file that has a long
argument list.
Guess diagnosis: a quoted stri
