A little more on this. Martin pointed out the problem is likely the nested quotes in the textVersion field instead of the double dash in the pages field.
The hint is in the build report output http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.5/bioc-LATEST/pathprint/malbec2-checksrc.html where it says the problem is in line 18: Invalid citation information in ‘inst/CITATION’: Error in parse(con): 18:181: unexpected symbol 17: pages ="68--81", 18: textVersion = paste("Altschuler, G. M., O. Hofmann, I. Kalatskaya, R. Payne, S. J. Ho Sui, U. Saxena, A. V. Krivtsov, S. A. Armstrong, T. Cai, L. Stein and W. A. Hide (2013). "Pathprinting ... Even though the package 'passed' build and check it's worth look at the build output, especially if you have warnings. Valerie On 04/23/2017 07:04 AM, Obenchain, Valerie wrote: > Looking at the build logs we see this error for the data package: > > ERROR: extractCitations > tarball: > /home/biocadmin/PACKAGES/3.5/data/experiment/src/contrib/pathprintGEOData_1.0.0.tar.gz > error: /tmp/Rtmpo8k7A4/pathprintGEOData/inst/CITATION:18:181: > unexpected symbol > 17: pages ="68--81", > 18: textVersion = paste("Altschuler, G. M., O. Hofmann, I. > Kalatskaya, R. Payne, S. J. Ho Sui, U. Saxena, A. V. Krivtsov, S. A. > Armstrong, T. Cai, L. Stein and W. A. Hide (2013). "Pathprinting > > > and the same for software: > > ERROR: extractCitations > tarball: > /home/biocadmin/PACKAGES/3.5/bioc/src/contrib/pathprint_1.2.4.tar.gz > error: 18:181: unexpected symbol > 17: pages ="68--81", > 18: textVersion = paste("Altschuler, G. M., O. Hofmann, I. > Kalatskaya, R. Payne, S. J. Ho Sui, U. Saxena, A. V. Krivtsov, S. A. > Armstrong, T. Cai, L. Stein and W. A. Hide (2013). "Pathprinting > > > Replace the double dash with single and it should be fine. > > Valerie > > > > On 04/23/2017 05:29 AM, Sokratis Kariotis wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I have updated the CITATION file in my packages pathprint and >> pathprintGEOData (to be ready for the release), but in the landing page the >> old citation still shows (even the package version in the citation is >> different than the one in the details). How can I mend this? Thanks in >> advance! >> >> https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/pathprint.html >> https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/data/experiment/html/pathprintGEOData.html >> >> Regards, >> Sokratis Kariotis >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel