General_Packaging_Notes.md

In publicus/r-veccompare: Perform Set Operations on Vectors, Automatically Generating All n-Wise Comparisons, and Create Markdown Output

Following https://github.com/STAT545-UBC/Discussion/issues/240, I was trying to run R CMD Rd2pdf veccompare --no-clean, but was getting an error,

Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet,  : 
  Running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rd2.tex' failed.
Messages:
sh: 1: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: not found

Following https://stackoverflow.com/a/17652742, I fixed this by installing texinfo: "You need to install texinfo:" sudo apt-get install texinfo

I was getting an error re: PDF builds failing when using Ctrl + Shift + E in RStudio. This turned out to be from an unescaped '%' in an ROxygen comment.

From https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/roxygen2/vignettes/formatting.html: "Note that \ and % are special characters. To insert literals, escape with a backslash: \, \%." See the Note under reformat_code in https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rd2roxygen/Rd2roxygen.pdf (p. 6):

One possible situation is the percent symbol %, which should be escaped even in the examples code (cf Writing R Extensions), and this can make the code syntactically incorrect, e.g. a %in% b should be a \%in\% b but the latter is not valid R code.

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