parse (PR#2104)

dmurdoch@pair.com dmurdoch@pair.com
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:10:16 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:31:11 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:

>> # The following line produces an error:
>> tmp.name<-"tmp"
>> parse(text=paste(tmp.name, ".lg, ",  sep="") )
>Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : parse error

I'm not sure what you'd expect here.  If you just enter the result of
the paste at the command line, you should see 

> tmp.lg,
Error: syntax error

Commas aren't allowed to end expressions.  (Array indexing and
function calls have argument lists ending with a comma, but argument
lists aren't expressions.)

Duncan Murdoch

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