[R-pkg-devel] Issue of itemize in man file

2023-10-22 Thread J C Nash
I'm doing a major update of the optimx package and things were going relatively smoothly until this weekend when files that have passed win-builder gave NOTEs on r-devel for several manual (.Rd) files. The NOTE is of the form * checking Rd files ... NOTE checkRd: (-1) fnchk.Rd:40-41: Lost braces

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Issue of itemize in man file

2023-10-22 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:43:08 -0400 J C Nash wrote: >\itemize{ > \item{fnchk OK;}{ \code{excode} = 0; > \code{infeasible} = FALSE} The \item command inside \itemize{} lists doesn't take arguments. Did you mean \describe{} instead of \itemize{}? -- Best r

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Issue of itemize in man file

2023-10-22 Thread Vincent van Hees
I ran into the same issue last week with .Rd files that were previously accepted on CRAN and concluded that the package checks are becoming more critical about this aspect of Rd syntax, which is good. To reproduce the note outside R-devel and by that identify which files in your package are affect

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Issue of itemize in man file

2023-10-22 Thread J C Nash
Thanks. That seems to be the issue. Also vincent's suggestion of checkRd. JN On 2023-10-22 10:52, Ivan Krylov wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:43:08 -0400 J C Nash wrote: \itemize{ \item{fnchk OK;}{ \code{excode} = 0; \code{infeasible} = FALSE} The \

[R-pkg-devel] Failing to write config file in linux

2023-10-22 Thread Keshav, Krishna
Hi, My package is failing on linux based systems because of an attempt to write in a location of package. One of the core features that we would like user to have is to modify the values in the config file, for which package has a function for user to provide modified config. In future, they sh

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Failing to write config file in linux

2023-10-22 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:52:50 + "Keshav, Krishna" wrote: > My package is failing on linux based systems because of an attempt to > write in a location of package. One of the core features that we > would like user to have is to modify the values in the config file Can you place the edited con

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Failing to write config file in linux

2023-10-22 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-package-devel
Installed packages may not be modified because they are permitted to be installed with read-only access. You have no option to proceed in this direction. Configuration files are normally stored in the user's working directory. Dotfiles are a common convention in *nix operating systems, but in W