[R] Rdconv.pm errors while installing R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, William D. McCoy wrote:

> I have just compiled and installed R-patched on a Sparc 20 running
> Solaris 2.5.1.  The compilation and installation went fine except for
> the message:
>
> Bare word found where operator expected at
> /usr/src/R/R-patched/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 1491, near "$txtout
> txt_header"   (Missing operator before txt_header?)
>
> I get similar messages for lines 1390, 1405, 1420, and 1448 in
> Rdconv.pm.  I have Perl 5, but it's old (5.003) and maybe that's the
> problem.
>
> I get the same message when installing packages when their docs are
> processed.  My question is whether anything is likely to be wrong with
> the documentation produced this way.  As I run R and read the html
> help pages, I don't see any obvious problem.
>
> Have others had this problem?

Yes, they have.  It seems to be a bug in that version of perl. Try
making it &txt_header in those lines, until you time to get Perl upgraded.

As I don't have the ancient verion of perl, I can't say if the docs are
incorretlye processed, but it seems likely that they are.

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