Dear All First off, let me just add my thanks to all the people involved in the production of R-1.0.0... Well Done!! I'm getting an error installing R-1.0.0 on RedHat 5.2, perl 5.004_04. It did not occur under Solaris 2.6 with perl 5.004_01. During install of the base package (and akima, bootstrap, etc) it gets to the point of building the help pages and it gives this error:>>> Building/Updating help pages for package `base' Formats:text html latex example HairEyeColor html latex example Hershey text html latex example Hyperbolic text html latex example Hypergeometric text html latex example IQR text html latex example Substitution loop at /a/euler/export/local/linux/pkg/R-1.0.0/etc/Rdconvlib.pl line 1262, <rdfile> chunk 3268. and the install of that package stops, half way through the generation of the help file for InsectSprays (which comes next after IQR). Line 1262 of etc/Rdconvlib.pl is: $ntext =~ s/^[\n]*//go; and "man perldiag" says: Substitution loop (P) The substitution was looping infinitely. (Obviously, a substitution shouldn't iterate more times than there are characters of input, which is what happened.) See the discussion of substitution in the section on Quote and Quote-like Operators in the perlop manpage. The last few lines of the aborted help/InsectSprays is: ... Description: The counts of insects in agricultural experimental units treated with different insecticides. Usage: ------ stops here (but of course it shouldn't) --------- Any suggestions ? Thanks Ian -- Ian Thurlbeck http://www.stams.strath.ac.uk/ Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, UK, G1 1XH Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3667 Fax: +44 (0)141 552 2079 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Peter Dalgaard BSA
2000-Mar-01 15:47 UTC
[R] R-1.0.0 install: Error "Substitution loop..."
Ian Thurlbeck <ian at stams.strath.ac.uk> writes:> Any suggestions ?I think we've bumped into that one before and it is a bug in that particular version of perl, so how about upgrading it? Perhaps this one would do ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/perl-5.004m7-1.i386.rpm -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._