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Hi, I think I've found a bug in R CMD INSTALL. When it tries to parse a DESCRIPTION file with an invalid LazyData field, it errors out while trying to print the correct error message: > R CMD INSTALL . * installing to library ?/home/example/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4? * installing *source* package ?samplepackage? ... ** data Error in errmsg("invalid value of ", field,

...reproduce the bug here: > https://github.com/agwells/R-CMD-INSTALL-bug > I'm running R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28), on Ubuntu 16.04. > Cheers, > Aaron Thank you very much, Aaron. This is indeed a bug, and it looks that I had caused it when introducing the internal str_parse() utlity. It's too bad this is so close before release of R 3.4.3 and the fix to the bug is not trivial (not very hard either) such that it most probably will not make it into 3.4.3. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich