[Rd] Possible Latex problem in R-devel?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.

RedHat 8 is actually on 5.8.0 and is affected by this nit. Could we
fix it in the sources? Would be nice if it doesn't turn into yet
another must-upgrade-this-tool for developers.

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