[BUGZILLA #17435] On CentOS with complete texlive \HeaderA balks

[MichaelChirico]

This one had been running me in circles for a bit. On a CentOS 7.3 system
with "everything" installed that the (Martyn-authored) README at CRAN asks
for, I cannot turn Rd pages into a manual. Which makes R CMD check tedious.

I first asked on r-sig-fedora, but not resolution. Thread starts here:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-fedora/2018-May/000553.html

I found this hard to debug but was just poking around again and found that
for a minimal package.skeleton() generated package I had the same issue.

By preserving the generated Rd.tex, I was able to find that

\HeaderA{...}

causes the issue. As soon as I comment-out the line

\HeaderA{testPkg-package}{What the package does (short line)}
{testPkg.Rdash.package}

it proceeds. Stumps me.

Happy to run more tests etc.

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METADATA

• Bug author - Dirk Eddelbuettel
• Creation time - 2018-06-14 18:51:51 UTC
• Bugzilla link
• Status - NEW
• Alias - None
• Component - System-specific
• Version - R 3.4.4
• Hardware - Other Linux-RHEL
• Importance - P5 enhancement
• Assignee - R-core
• URL -