R devel - Mar 2014 - "ERROR: installing package indices failed" message when building my package?

Hey all,

I'm currently trying to build an R package and don't really know what
to make of the error message I'm getting. I couldn't find anything
helpful online so hopefully somebody here can give me a couple of
pointers. I see the following when I try to build:

s$ R CMD build --verbose r_package_files/
Warning: unknown option '--verbose'
* checking for file 'r_package_files/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'pRRophetic':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to build vignettes
      -----------------------------------
* installing *source* package 'pRRophetic' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Warning: replacing previous import by 'genefilter::Anova' when loading
'pRRophetic'
** help
No man pages found in package  'pRRophetic'
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  line 1 did not have 38 elements
ERROR: installing package indices failed



Thanks in advance for any help!

Paul.



-- 
Dr. Paul Geeleher, PhD
Section of Hematology-Oncology
Department of Medicine
The University of Chicago
900 E. 57th St.,
KCBD, Room 7144
Chicago, IL 60637
--
www.bioinformaticstutorials.com

>>>>> Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:04:29 -0500 writes:
    > Hey all, I'm currently trying to build an R package and
    > don't really know what to make of the error message I'm
    > getting. I couldn't find anything helpful online so
    > hopefully somebody here can give me a couple of
    > pointers. I see the following when I try to build:

    > s$ R CMD build --verbose r_package_files/
    > Warning: unknown option '--verbose'
    > * checking for file 'r_package_files/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
    > * preparing 'pRRophetic':
    > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
    > * installing the package to build vignettes
    > -----------------------------------
    > * installing *source* package 'pRRophetic' ...
    > ** R
    > ** data
    > ** inst
    > ** preparing package for lazy loading
    > Warning: replacing previous import by 'genefilter::Anova' when
loading
    > 'pRRophetic'

    > ** help
    > No man pages found in package  'pRRophetic'

Well, this could be it.  It may well be that we (R authors) do
require some man pages, and I would not disagree with such a requirement.

Do provide at least a man/pRRophetic-package.Rd file
if nothing else.

You can use   promptPackage()   to create a prototype for such a
file easily.

Martin

    > *** installing help indices
    > ** building package indices
    > Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,
na.strings,  :
    > line 1 did not have 38 elements
    > ERROR: installing package indices failed



    > Thanks in advance for any help!

    > Paul.



    > -- 
    > Dr. Paul Geeleher, PhD
    > Section of Hematology-Oncology
    > Department of Medicine
    > The University of Chicago
    > 900 E. 57th St.,
    > KCBD, Room 7144
    > Chicago, IL 60637
    > --
    > www.bioinformaticstutorials.com

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