[R] Sweave and scan()

[Murray Jorgensen]

Both suggestions generate similar errors to those of the original code. 
I would also be worried if the results would not puzzle my students.

But thanks!  Murray

David Winsemius wrote:
> 
> On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
> 
>> I am introducing the scan() function to my class. Consider the 
>> following file (Scanexamp.Rnw )
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>> <<>>=
>> height = scan()
> 
>> 64 62 66 65 62
>> 69 72 72 70
> 
> Have you considered adding an empty line or an ";" after the closing 
> paren of scan? (At the console the semi-colon gambit has the desired 
> effect while the empty line strategy fails.)
> 
>>
>> part = scan(what = character(0))
>> "Soprano" "Soprano" "Soprano"
>> "Alto"    "Alto"    "Tenor"
>> "Tenor"   "Bass"    "Bass"
>>
>> sh = data.frame(height, part)
>> sh
>> @
>> \end{document}
>>
>> Now what happens when I attempt to Sweave this is
>>
>> > Sweave("scanexamp.Rnw")
>> Writing to file scanexamp.tex
>> Processing code chunks ...
>> 1 : echo term verbatim
>>
>> Error:  chunk 1
>> Error in parse(text = chunk) : unexpected numeric constant in:
>> "height = scan()
>> 64 62"
>> >
>>
>> Comments would be appreciated. (And thanks to Ross Darnell for a lot 
>> of help on another list.)
>>
>> Cheers,  Murray Jorgensen
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
>> Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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> David Winsemius, MD
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Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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