[R] Nested source()s

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

Yes, I have source()-ed recursively without problems before. Try
sourcing the second script on its own and see what errors it has.

I have download lkpack.zip
(http://www.mep.ki.se/~yudpaw/likelihood/lkpack.zip)
and source("EX2-13.R") and source("li.r") which is called without
problem. The timestamp appears to show that it was not modified
recently.

Are you sure you have the latest version ?

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 12:45, Rolf Turner wrote:
> Murray Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> > I had an error message while running a macro from Yudi Pawitan's web site:
> > 
> >  > source("ex2-13.r")
> > Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 2
> > 
> > Inspecting ex2-13.r I found that the error was generated by another 
> > source() command.
> > 
> > Clearly R does not like nested source()s, which is fair enough when you 
>   ^^^^^^^
>   |||||||
>   Nothing clear about it!
> 
> > think about it. Still it's something that you might want to do. Does 
> > anyone know how to get achieve the substance of what nested source() 
> > commands would give you?
> 
> 	You're leaping to conclusions, mate.  There is no
> 	proscription of nested sources in R.  I just checked
> 	this:  I built a file called ``melvin'':
> 
> 	x <- 42
> 	source('clyde')
> 
> 	and a file called ``clyde'':
> 
> 	y <- 2*x
> 	print(y)
> 
> 	and then executed
> 
> 	> source('melvin')
> 
> 	and got
> 
> 	[1] 84
> 
> 	OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
> 
> 	There is something else wrong in the files that you
> 	are sourcing.
> 
> 					cheers,
> 
> 						Rolf
> 						rolf at math.unb.ca
> 
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