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2013 Nov 26
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Blank lines in DESCRIPTION
...ire about the existence of blank lines in the
DESCRIPTION file.
Testing different possibilities with tools:::.read_description suggests
that starting or ending with blank lines is acceptable while blank lines
in the middle of the file get caught by
out <- tryCatch(read.dcf(dfile, keep.white = .keep_white_description_fields),
error = function(e) stop(gettextf("file '%s' is not in valid DCF format",
dfile), domain = NA, call. = FALSE))
if (nrow(out) != 1)
stop("contains a blank line", call. = FALSE)
and produce the error.
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