How is Lily counting measures

[Laura Conrad]

I believe that the attached file contains one partial and three full
measures, with measures ending on the barchecks.

Lily seems to disagree.  She says:

lilypond test.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.15.23
Processing `test.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music... 
test.ly:11:13: warning: barcheck failed at: -1/2
          r2 
             | R1. | R1. |  r2 r2     g'
test.ly:11:15: warning: barcheck failed at: 1
          r2 | 
               R1. | R1. |  r2 r2     g'

It's probably my not understanding something about how \partial is
supposed to work, but I'd appreciate an explanation, especially since
the PDF file generated from this lilypond is difficult to read, in that
the r2 after the second R1. is squished into the measure with the
R1. and is difficult to see.

test.ly
Description: Binary data

Thanks,
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