Thank you Duncan: I found the culprit - my menu contains lines like this one:
winMenuAdd(menuname = "mh1823/\u00e2 vs a/2. Build \u00e2 vs a Linear Model") This does produce a menu item that looks like รข vs a and since R doesn't seem to like the a-hat character I tried to get around the objection with the corresponding Unicode character(s), obviously with no success. The menu works perfectly well, but can't be packaged as it currently is using R CMD build --binary March18. Is there no way for me to package the menu? Thanks, again. Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] invalid \uxxxx sequence while trying to create a package On 18/03/2008 5:17 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > Greetings, R-Helpers: > > > > I am trying to build a package on WinXP, something that I have done before, > but infrequently, and have recently updated both the Rtools and the version > of R being used. > > > > My test case fails after successfully creating the compiled html files with > this error message: > > . > > . > > . > > Created > c:\DOCUME~1\CHARLE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rbuild142865646\March18\chm\March18.chm, > 41,494 bytes > > Compression decreased file by 50,957 bytes. > > preparing package March18 for lazy loading > > Loading required package: rcom > > Loading required package: RODBC > > Loading required package: RColorBrewer > > Loading required package: survival > > Loading required package: splines > > Error in parse(n = -1, file = file) : invalid \uxxxx sequence > > Calls: <Anonymous> -> code2LazyLoadDB -> sys.source -> parse > > Execution halted > > make: *** [lazyload] Error 1 > > *** Installation of March18 failed *** > > > > Removing 'C:/DOCUME~1/CHARLE~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/Rinst142800030/March18' > > > > > > While I can clearly read that the problem is invalid \uxxxx sequence I don't > know what it means nor how to remedy it. > > > > Helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The \uxxxx sequences are Unicode characters. The xxxx are supposed to be hexadecimal digits. So you might have something like cat("\u00B7") to display a dot. "Invalid" means it's not recognized, or not well-formed. So what I'd suggest is to search your source code for \u, and see if you inadvertantly included this for some other purpose. Alternatively, it's possible something has translated a non-Ascii character into a \uxxxx sequence; I don't know what might have done that. If none of that works, you could try reporting on what versions of everything you're using. You didn't mention that yet. And if they are all currrent versions (R 2.6.2, Rtools 2.7) then I guess you'll just have to divide and conquer: cut out half the source code and see if you still get the error. If so, cut it again, if not, look in the other half. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
