[R] Turning on helpful errors in interpreter? was Re: problem with simple if() statement

[Uwe Ligges]

Patricia J. Hawkins wrote:

> Evidently, my R has some feature of error messages disabled.
> 
> 
>>>>>>"NG" == Norman Goodacre <taranpen at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> NG> the following code apprantely, for some grand old reason, induces a syntax error:
> NG>   if (seq[i] = "A") m <- trans[1,]
> 
> NG>   Error: syntax error in "if (seq[i] ="
> 
> Where Norman gets this nice error message pointing to the exact
> location of the error, all I get is:
> 
> 
>>if (1=1) 5
> 
> Error: syntax error
> 
> 
> How do I turn on more-verbose error messages? Is this an environmental
> issue, or a build issue?

It's a version issue! Please update.

Uwe Ligges


> 
> This is a debian (ubuntu breezy) build; happens even when I run R --vanilla
> 
> R.version
>          _                
> platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i486             
> os       linux-gnu        
> system   i486, linux-gnu  
> status                    
> major    2                
> minor    1.1              
> year     2005             
> month    06               
> day      20               
> language R                
> 
> TIA!
>