When I attempt to install the online help for R.99 on Intel RH5.2, I get the following message Substitution loop at /usr/local/src/R/etc/Rdconvlib.pl line 1589, <rdfile> chunk 171 and it stops after a few files. Each time I rerun it, it gets a bit further and gives a different number at the end. I commented out the line 1589 and it works. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
jlindsey at alpha.luc.ac.be wrote:> When I attempt to install the online help for R.99 on Intel RH5.2, I > get the following message > > Substitution loop at /usr/local/src/R/etc/Rdconvlib.pl line 1589, <rdfile> chunk 171 > > and it stops after a few files. Each time I rerun it, it gets a bit > further and gives a different number at the end. I commented out the > line 1589 and it works.I had exactly the same problem, also under RH5.2. I upgraded to perl version 5.005_03 and now it works. Seems to be a problem with the RH5.2 version of perl? Adrian -- Adrian Trapletti, Vienna University of Economics and Business Ad- ministration, Operations Research, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria Phone: ++43-(0)1-31336-4561 Email: adrian.trapletti at wu-wien.ac.at Fax: ++43-(0)1-31336-708 WWW: http://quor/adrian/html/index.html -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> From: jlindsey@alpha.luc.ac.be > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:29:24 +0100 (MET) > > When I attempt to install the online help for R.99 on Intel RH5.2, I > get the following message > > Substitution loop at /usr/local/src/R/etc/Rdconvlib.pl line 1589, <rdfile>chunk 171> > and it stops after a few files. Each time I rerun it, it gets a bit > further and gives a different number at the end. I commented out the > line 1589 and it works.This appears to be a bug in the Perl included with RH5.2. Adrian Trapletti (and Fritz Leisch) reports: I had exactly the same problem, also under RH5.2. I upgraded to perl version 5.005_03 and now it works. Perl 5.005_02 works for me on Solaris, too. [I am just filing Adrian's report on R-bugs for the record.] -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._