[R] problem in installing a package

Ting-Yuan Liu
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:57:57 -0000

Hi Claire,

For the R CMD check error... It seems that you used some special
characters, such as "_", in your Rd files so that Latex can not handle
them.  Try to add the escape charatcer "\" before these special
characters.

HTH,
Ting-Yuan

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Claire Lee wrote:

> I'm using R in Windows XP. I created a package myself.
> I've used R CMD check to check it. Everything seems OK
> except the latex. I get the error message:
> * checking bbHist-manual.tex ... ERROR
> LaTeX errors when creating DVI version.
> This typically indicates Rd problems.
>
> I ignored it because I didn't want to submit it to
> CRAN.
>
> Then I tried to use R CMD INSTALL to install it. First
> I get:
> "mv: cannot move `c:/PROGRA~1/R/rw2011/library/bbHist'
> to `c:/PROGRA~1/R/rw2011/library/00LOCK/bbHist
> ': Permission denied"
>
> and a bunch of making DLL errors.  Then when I tried a
> second time, I get:
>
> open(c:/progra~1/r/rw2011/library/bbHist/DESCRIPTION):
> No such file or directory
>
> I can see a 00LOCK directory is created in the
> c:/PROGRA~1/R/rw2011/library directory. Any idea why
> this is happening?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Claire
>
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