[R] Error

[Roger Bivand]

(Please use a more informative Subject:, for example naming the package. I
haven't changed the Subject:, but it should be "substr() error in
read.pnm")

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Francisco do Nascimento Junior wrote:

> people,
> 
> I'm using the pixmap library and method read.pnm() for to read figures and
> it's
> giving the following error:
> Error in substr(inpstr, com1, stop = ns) :
>         evaluation is nested too deeply: infinite recursion?

If you look at the code of read.pnm() you see that it calls 
read.pnmhead(). Within this is a function called strip.comments(). My 
guess is that someone has written a dissertation instead of a comment. PNM 
files have ASCII headers, so you could try simply shortening any comments 
you see. If you can put the offending file on a website I can take a look 
at it. At present read.pnmhead() assumes that the header is not more than 
350 characters long; if you enter debug(read.pnmhead) before running 
read.pnm(), you will see which line it fails at. Please contact me off the 
list.

Roger Bivand

> 
> I think that to be because of its size.
> Am I correct?
> 
> Tks,
> Francisco.
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Francisco Júnior,
> Computer Science - UFPE-Brazil
> "One life has more value that the
> world whole"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
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