On 10 February 2010 at 22:26, Asheesh Laroia wrote: | yOn Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Asheesh Laroia <asheesh <at> asheesh.org> writes: | >> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: | >>> I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 | >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 | >>> | >>> I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it is | >>> not a real fix. A plugin of R seems not to work anymore. | > [...] | >> An R-y friend pointed me toward http://developer.r-project.org/parseRd.pdf | >> which documents changes to the .Rd format. | > | > Correct. R 2.10.0, released in October, switched the documentation parser | > implementation (from an external one written in Perl to an internal one | > written in R). At the same time some definitions were tightened. For 'normal' | > R packages (eg on CRAN) this was transitioned with warnings first that later | > turned to errors. Ie not unlike what we do with Lintian. | > | > Hope this helps. I would be glad to take a look at the Rd file in question if | > someone could email it my way. | | The Rd file in question is attached for your convenience. In case you | prefer web links, I put it up at | http://makesad.us/~paulproteus/tmp/TeXmacs.Rd Beauty of different timezones :) Atsuhito had already sent me the file when I got up this morning. There were two issues: a) the file was really two files with the \eof marker denoting the end [ but R doesn't have a \eof symbol ] and b) one comment line was not actually commented out. Two correct individual files are attached. Can you (or Atsuhito) try with those?
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With these, I was able to do a standard transformation to html using R without error or warning: edd@ron:/tmp/TeXmacs> R CMD Rdconv -t html -o TeXmacs.html TeXmacs.Rd R CMD Rdconv -t html -o TeXmacs.html TeXmacs.Rd edd@ron:/tmp/TeXmacs> R CMD Rdconv -t html -o view.html view.Rd R CMD Rdconv -t html -o view.html view.Rd edd@ron:/tmp/TeXmacs> Hope this helps, Dirk -- Registration is open for the 2nd International conference R / Finance 2010 See http://www.RinFinance.com for details, and see you in Chicago in April!