[Rd] Possible Latex problem in R-devel?
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Aug 23 20:22:37 CEST 2004
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote:
> I'm getting this error when installing packages w/ a checkout of R from a
> a little bit ago (23-Aug-2004, approx 1pm eastern US time):
>
> ** help
> Bareword found where operator expected at
> /usr/home/jgentry/R/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 2331, near "$latexout
> latex_link_trans0"
> (Missing operator before latex_link_trans0?)
>
> It isn't obvious to me what the error is, although commenting out line
> 2331 definitely causes the error to go away.
What version of perl?
It works correctly in the current 5.8.4 (it has installed all the CRAN
packages), but I think I have seen something similar in 5.8.0. Making
that
print $latexout &latex_link_trans0($blocks{"name"});
will probably solve it for you.
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