R devel - Dec 2007 - R CMD check error, Readitem unknown type 203

Hi,

Apologies if it has already been posted. I searched the archives and 
couldn't find the answer to my problem.

I am building a R package and while checking it with R CMD check, I get 
the following error,

  * checking whether package 'drCCA' can be installed ... ERROR
  Installation failed.

00install.out shows following message,

  ** building package indices ...
  Error in load(zfile, envir = envir) : ReadItem: unknown type 203
  Execution halted
  ERROR: installing package indices failed


Does somebody has any idea what it means?? 
Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Abhishek Tripathi
Researcher
Department of Computer Science
University of Helsinki

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Abhishek Tripathi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if it has already been posted. I searched the archives and
> couldn't find the answer to my problem.
>
> I am building a R package and while checking it with R CMD check, I get
> the following error,
>
>  * checking whether package 'drCCA' can be installed ... ERROR
>  Installation failed.
>
> 00install.out shows following message,
>
>  ** building package indices ...
>  Error in load(zfile, envir = envir) : ReadItem: unknown type 203
>  Execution halted
>  ERROR: installing package indices failed
>
>
> Does somebody has any idea what it means??
It means your package is corrupt, most likely something in the data files.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
> Abhishek Tripathi
> Researcher
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Helsinki
>
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On 12/12/2007 4:55 AM, Abhishek Tripathi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies if it has already been posted. I searched the archives and 
> couldn't find the answer to my problem.
> 
> I am building a R package and while checking it with R CMD check, I get 
> the following error,
> 
>   * checking whether package 'drCCA' can be installed ... ERROR
>   Installation failed.
> 
> 00install.out shows following message,
> 
>   ** building package indices ...
>   Error in load(zfile, envir = envir) : ReadItem: unknown type 203
>   Execution halted
>   ERROR: installing package indices failed
> 
> 
> Does somebody has any idea what it means?? 
I would guess you are trying to build it in an obsolete version of R. 
It probably contains binary data created in a newer version.

Duncan Murdoch