To close this thread, this issue appears to have been solved in R devel since at least r57339 (also confirmed with r57348).
/Henrik On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Apologies if this is a very naive question. Is there a way to see the >> particular Rd file being processed right before a warning/error >> occurs? As far as I can tell, all my .Rd files use have names and >> titles and they are unique between Rd files (sometimes in a file I use >> something like \name{foo} \title{Foo}). I seem to be able to convert >> files to latex using: R CMD Rdconv --type=latex on all my Rd files >> without problems. >> >> Here is the warning and error: >> >> * checking PDF version of manual ... ERROR >> Rd conversion errors: >> Warning in file(con, "r") : >> file("") only supports open = "w+" and open = "w+b": using the former >> Error : : Sections \title, and \name must exist and be unique in Rd files > > For what it is worth: I also get this error when I try to "R CMD > check" any of my many packages on R Under development (unstable) > (2011-10-13 r57231) on Windows 7. It does not occur with R version > 2.14.0 alpha (2011-10-14 r57245). I haven't had time to troubleshoot > this and I figured I'll wait a few revisions. > > The error does not occur when using tools::checkRd(), e.g. > >> setwd("R.methodsS3/man/"); >> filenames <- list.files(pattern="[.]Rd$"); >> dummy <- sapply(pathnames, FUN=tools::checkRd); >> > > /Henrik > >> >> I am using: >> >> R Under development (unstable) (2011-10-11 r57214) >> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) >> on Windows 7 with Rtools 2.14 and MikTeX 2.9 >> >> Any suggestions or pointers to manuals/documentation would be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Josh >> >> >> -- >> Joshua Wiley >> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology >> Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group >> University of California, Los Angeles >> https://joshuawiley.com/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel