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Unfriendly error for '@include zoo' instead of '@import zoo' #1497

@MichaelChirico

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@MichaelChirico

The logic for processing @include could go for a sanity check. Using @include zoo by mistake gives some hard-to-trace error:

Warning in normalizePath(file.path(path, "R", collate)) :
  path[3]="...R/zoo": No such file or directory
Warning in file(con, "r") :
  cannot open file '...R/zoo': No such file or directory
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
Calls: Main ... parse_package -> lapply -> FUN -> read_lines -> <Anonymous> -> file
In addition: Warning message:
'Collate' must contain a list of .R files

In retrospect this makes sense, but it took quite some time to debug. Is it valid to @include a non-R file? Couldn't we check file.exists() for @include directives to prevent this with a friendlier error?

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