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Asked: 2026-05-13T07:39:53+00:00

this sounds like a silly problem: I’m putting my R code into a package

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this sounds like a silly problem: I’m putting my R code into a package and R CMD check src complains about the .Rd~ backup files being produced by Emacs. 

* checking package subdirectories ... WARNING
Subdirectory 'man' contains invalid file names:
  read.PI.Rd~ write.PI.Rd~

the documentation says: »In addition […] files […] with base names […] ending in ‘~’, ‘.bak’ or ‘.swp’, are excluded by default.« (page 18). but then why the warning?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just add a file cleanup which removes them in your top-level directory. Also, you could build a tarball or zip archive first via R CMD build and the check this archive via R CMD check — that should skip these filese as well.

    Also, exactly how are you calling R CMD check, and what is your directory layout? With R 2.10.0 on Linux, I just ran touch pkg/man/foo.Rd~ for one of my packages, and R CMD check pkg (where pkg is the top-level directory as common for source projects stored on R-Forge)
    did not issue this warning you are seeing. The file was not removed by cleanup as that currently purges only in src.

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