Hi,
I have run into a problem with parseData from the utils package.? When
an assignment is done with = instead of <-, the information provided by
parseData does not include an entry for the assignment.
For this input, stored in file "BadPosition.R":
y <- 5
foo = 7
And running this code:
parsed <- parse("BadPosition.R", keep.source=TRUE)
parsedData <- utils::getParseData (parsed, includeText=TRUE)
print(paste("parseData =", parsedData))
I get the following output:
[1] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)"
[2] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 3, 6, 6, 1, 1, 5, 7, 7)"
[3] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)"
[4] "parseData = c(6, 1, 1, 4, 6, 6, 3, 3, 5, 7, 7)"
[5] "parseData = c(7, 1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 11, 13, 14)"
[6] "parseData = c(0, 3, 7, 7, 5, 7, 12, 0, 0, 14, 0)"
[7] "parseData = c(\"expr\", \"SYMBOL\",
\"expr\", \"LEFT_ASSIGN\",
\"NUM_CONST\", \"expr\", \"SYMBOL\",
\"expr\", \"EQ_ASSIGN\",
\"NUM_CONST\", \"expr\")"
[8] "parseData = c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE,
TRUE, TRUE, FALSE)"
[9] "parseData = c(\"y <- 5\", \"y\",
\"y\", \"<-\", \"5\", \"5\",
\"foo\", \"foo\", \"=\", \"7\",
\"7\")"
Notice how there is an entry for "y <- 5" beginning on line 1,
column 1,
ending at line 1, column 6, but there is no analogous entry for "foo =
7".
I am running R 3.5.0 on a Mac running 10.12.6.
Thanks for your help and please let me know if you need any further
information.
Barbara
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Dear Barbara, thank you for the report. This is something to be fixed in R - I am now testing a patch that adds the extra node for the equality assignment expression. Best, Tomas On 07/30/2018 05:35 PM, Barbara Lerner wrote:> Hi, > > I have run into a problem with parseData from the utils package.? When > an assignment is done with = instead of <-, the information provided by > parseData does not include an entry for the assignment. > > For this input, stored in file "BadPosition.R": > > y <- 5 > foo = 7 > > And running this code: > > parsed <- parse("BadPosition.R", keep.source=TRUE) > parsedData <- utils::getParseData (parsed, includeText=TRUE) > print(paste("parseData =", parsedData)) > > I get the following output: > > [1] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)" > [2] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 3, 6, 6, 1, 1, 5, 7, 7)" > [3] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)" > [4] "parseData = c(6, 1, 1, 4, 6, 6, 3, 3, 5, 7, 7)" > [5] "parseData = c(7, 1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 11, 13, 14)" > [6] "parseData = c(0, 3, 7, 7, 5, 7, 12, 0, 0, 14, 0)" > [7] "parseData = c(\"expr\", \"SYMBOL\", \"expr\", \"LEFT_ASSIGN\", > \"NUM_CONST\", \"expr\", \"SYMBOL\", \"expr\", \"EQ_ASSIGN\", > \"NUM_CONST\", \"expr\")" > [8] "parseData = c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, > TRUE, TRUE, FALSE)" > [9] "parseData = c(\"y <- 5\", \"y\", \"y\", \"<-\", \"5\", \"5\", > \"foo\", \"foo\", \"=\", \"7\", \"7\")" > > Notice how there is an entry for "y <- 5" beginning on line 1, column 1, > ending at line 1, column 6, but there is no analogous entry for "foo = 7". > > I am running R 3.5.0 on a Mac running 10.12.6. > > Thanks for your help and please let me know if you need any further > information. > > Barbara >
The fix is now in R-devel, 75386. I have not ported to R-patched, because the fix breaks two packages which are working around this bug (and to my knowledge without having reported it before). So thanks again for the report! Best Tomas On 08/16/2018 10:06 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:> Dear Barbara, > > thank you for the report. This is something to be fixed in R - I am > now testing a patch that adds the extra node for the equality > assignment expression. > > Best, > Tomas > > On 07/30/2018 05:35 PM, Barbara Lerner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have run into a problem with parseData from the utils package.? When >> an assignment is done with = instead of <-, the information provided by >> parseData does not include an entry for the assignment. >> >> For this input, stored in file "BadPosition.R": >> >> y <- 5 >> foo = 7 >> >> And running this code: >> >> parsed <- parse("BadPosition.R", keep.source=TRUE) >> parsedData <- utils::getParseData (parsed, includeText=TRUE) >> print(paste("parseData =", parsedData)) >> >> I get the following output: >> >> [1] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)" >> [2] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 3, 6, 6, 1, 1, 5, 7, 7)" >> [3] "parseData = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)" >> [4] "parseData = c(6, 1, 1, 4, 6, 6, 3, 3, 5, 7, 7)" >> [5] "parseData = c(7, 1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 11, 13, 14)" >> [6] "parseData = c(0, 3, 7, 7, 5, 7, 12, 0, 0, 14, 0)" >> [7] "parseData = c(\"expr\", \"SYMBOL\", \"expr\", \"LEFT_ASSIGN\", >> \"NUM_CONST\", \"expr\", \"SYMBOL\", \"expr\", \"EQ_ASSIGN\", >> \"NUM_CONST\", \"expr\")" >> [8] "parseData = c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, >> TRUE, TRUE, FALSE)" >> [9] "parseData = c(\"y <- 5\", \"y\", \"y\", \"<-\", \"5\", \"5\", >> \"foo\", \"foo\", \"=\", \"7\", \"7\")" >> >> Notice how there is an entry for "y <- 5" beginning on line 1, column 1, >> ending at line 1, column 6, but there is no analogous entry for "foo >> = 7". >> >> I am running R 3.5.0 on a Mac running 10.12.6. >> >> Thanks for your help and please let me know if you need any further >> information. >> >> Barbara >> >