[R] Problem with INSTALL packages (was: Problems with Rcmd build --- windows)

[kjetil brinchmann halvorsen]

On 29 Jul 2003 at 15:35, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Thanks!

That made the trick.

Kjetil Halvorsen

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> 
> > On 29 Jul 2003 at 7:53, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > 
> > Uwe Ligges thought it might be an Xemacs problem, it is nit, see 
> > below. I have run the scripts in different manners from different 
> > places, same problem. 
> > 
> > Also, I don't think there is a syntax problem in the file. It is 
> > thouroghly checked. What seems more probable, is there is a problem 
> > with size. The complete file have 706 lines. When I omit (almost) all 
> > the content from the 
> > \format{ ...
> >    \describe{ ...
> >      ...
> > 
> > part, and so reduce the file to 35 lines, the problems disappear. I 
> > did this reduction in parts, and each time the output of the form
> > 
> > \itemnormal-bracket1001bracket-normalVALUnormal-bracket1001bracket-
> > 
> > appears at about the same line number, until the file is small enough 
> > it disappears.
> 
> We've seen a similar bug before, PR#3400 (and I have seen similar problems 
> with large .Rd files)  which is why I asked about the size.  Here's the 
> answer:
> 
> share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm contains
> 
> $MAXLOOPS = 1000;
> 
> 
> Just increase it.
> 
> 
> -- 
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