[R] error with source(): invalid 'times' value

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Le 24. 01. 11 20:43, Duncan Murdoch a écrit :
> On 11-01-24 12:07 PM, Matthieu Stigler wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> I am seeing a strange behavior I can't understand... doing:
>>
>> >  source("/tmp/RFile.r",echo=TRUE)
>> Error in rep.int(c(prompt.echo, continue.echo), c(leading, 
>> length(dep) -  :
>>     invalid 'times' value
>> >  traceback()
>> 3: rep.int(c(prompt.echo, continue.echo), c(leading, length(dep) -
>>          leading))
>> 2: paste(rep.int(c(prompt.echo, continue.echo), c(leading, length(dep) -
>>          leading)), dep, sep = "", collapse = "\n")
>> 1: source("/tmp/RFile.r", echo = TRUE)
>> >
>>
>> But the file I am trying to source is very simple... see:
>> $ more /tmp/RFile.r
>> ###################################################
>> ### chunk number 1:
>> ###################################################
>> #line 516 "VolStocksDec2010.Rnw"
>> path<-"~/Dropbox/FAO/Papers/Volatility only"
>> pathMarkov<-"~/Dropbox/FAO/Markov Model/"
>> library(zoo)
>>
>> Any idea where it can come from? It works fine when echo=FALSE... I am
>> using R 2.12, on Ubuntu Linux 10.4 (R from CRAN), full session info
>> below. Should I rather send this to r-devel?
>
> There is no such version, but this looks like a bug that was fixed in 
> 2.12.1.  Are you using 2.12.0?  (I might be wrong about the timing of 
> the fix; if you're using 2.12.1, try 2.12.1-patched.)
Indeed 2.12.1, sorry for imprecision! I will give a try to 
2.12.1-patched, although I am not so sure how I can install it (should I 
compile) on linux...

thanks!!
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Thanks a  lot
>>
>> Matthieu
>>
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>> Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>>    [1] LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>    [3] LC_TIME=fr_CH.utf8        LC_COLLATE=fr_CH.utf8
>>    [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>    [7] LC_PAPER=fr_CH.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>>    [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_CH.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.12.1         lattice_0.19-17     Matrix_0.999375-45
>> [4] nnet_7.3-1          tsDyn_0.7-40        tseries_0.10-23
>> [7] tseriesChaos_0.1-11
>>
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