R help - Jul 2003 - Problems with Rcmd build --- windows

Hola!

I am using Rcmd build --binary ... on a windows XP system, and am 
encountering a strange problem. Rcmd claims there are syntax errors 
in one of mine .Rd files

******* Syntax error: mismatched or missing brackets in

I take "brackets" to mean [], and I have none of them in the file, 
and don't think they are needed. Rcmd prints out the offending file, 
and in the printout I can find:

 \itemnormal-bracket1001bracket-normalVALUnormal-bracket1001bracket-
normal{a factor, did you ever in life use alucinogenos,  with levels 
                \code{No} \code{Si}}             

Which is of course not what I have in my file, I have

 \item{VALU}{a factor, did you ever in life use alucinogenos,  with 
levels 
                \code{No} \code{Si}}    

This strange expansion of the braces {} does not occur any other 
place. I am running Rcmd from a shell window in Xemacs.

Any explanation of this strange happening?

Kjetil Halvorsen

Please note (because you keep saying it): this is not Rcmd.

Rcmd runs Perl to run the Perl script build.

The perl script build --binary runs INSTALL to install your package.

INSTALL runs Rdconv, and it is Rdconv which is complaining.

So the problem is installing your package: did you try installing it from 
the sources?

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
> 
> I am using Rcmd build --binary ... on a windows XP system, and am 
> encountering a strange problem. Rcmd claims there are syntax errors 
> in one of mine .Rd files
> 
> ******* Syntax error: mismatched or missing brackets in
> 
> I take "brackets" to mean [], and I have none of them in the
file,
> and don't think they are needed. 
It means braces, { }.
> Rcmd prints out the offending file, 
> and in the printout I can find:
> 
>  \itemnormal-bracket1001bracket-normalVALUnormal-bracket1001bracket-
> normal{a factor, did you ever in life use alucinogenos,  with levels 
>                 \code{No} \code{Si}}             
> 
> Which is of course not what I have in my file, I have
> 
>  \item{VALU}{a factor, did you ever in life use alucinogenos,  with 
> levels 
>                 \code{No} \code{Si}}    
> 
> This strange expansion of the braces {} does not occur any other 
> place. I am running Rcmd from a shell window in Xemacs.
Yes it does!  It's a normal part of Rd conversion.
> Any explanation of this strange happening?
Yes, there are syntax errors in your .Rd file, or a bug in Rdconv (but 
unlikely as it has successfully processed many files -- is this one 
particularly large?).  Try removing bits of the .Rd file to narrow the 
problem down.


-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

On 29 Jul 2003 at 7:53, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Uwe Ligges thought it might be an Xemacs problem, it is nit, see 
below. I have run the scripts in different manners from different 
places, same problem. 

Also, I don't think there is a syntax problem in the file. It is 
thouroghly checked. What seems more probable, is there is a problem 
with size. The complete file have 706 lines. When I omit (almost) all 
the content from the 
\format{ ...
   \describe{ ...
     ...

part, and so reduce the file to 35 lines, the problems disappear. I 
did this reduction in parts, and each time the output of the form

\itemnormal-bracket1001bracket-normalVALUnormal-bracket1001bracket-

appears at about the same line number, until the file is small enough 
it disappears.

Kjetil Halvorsen
> Please note (because you keep saying it): this is not Rcmd.
> 
> Rcmd runs Perl to run the Perl script build.
> 
> The perl script build --binary runs INSTALL to install your package.
> 
> INSTALL runs Rdconv, and it is Rdconv which is complaining.
> 
> So the problem is installing your package: did you try installing it from 
> the sources?
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> 
> > Hola!
> > 
> > I am using Rcmd build --binary ... on a windows XP system, and am 
> > encountering a strange problem. Rcmd claims there are syntax errors 
> > in one of mine .Rd files
> > 
> > ******* Syntax error: mismatched or missing brackets in
> > 
> > I take "brackets" to mean [], and I have none of them in the
file,
> > and don't think they are needed. 
> 
> It means braces, { }.
> 
> > Rcmd prints out the offending file, 
> > and in the printout I can find:
> > 
> >  \itemnormal-bracket1001bracket-normalVALUnormal-bracket1001bracket-
> > normal{a factor, did you ever in life use alucinogenos,  with levels 
> >                 \code{No} \code{Si}}             
> > 
> > Which is of course not what I have in my file, I have
> > 
> >  \item{VALU}{a factor, did you ever in life use alucinogenos,  with 
> > levels 
> >                 \code{No} \code{Si}}    
> > 
> > This strange expansion of the braces {} does not occur any other 
> > place. I am running Rcmd from a shell window in Xemacs.
> 
> Yes it does!  It's a normal part of Rd conversion.
> 
> > Any explanation of this strange happening?
> 
> Yes, there are syntax errors in your .Rd file, or a bug in Rdconv (but 
> unlikely as it has successfully processed many files -- is this one 
> particularly large?).  Try removing bits of the .Rd file to narrow the 
> problem down.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>