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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-01-24 5:09 PM, mat wrote:
> 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...

Bill Dunlap has already confirmed that this is not what was fixed (or 
what was fixed never made it into the sources).  I'll get to it, but not 
for a couple of weeks.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> 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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>>
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