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

Matthieu Stigler
2011-01-24T17:07:03Z

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?

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