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

Duncan Murdoch
2011-01-24T19:43:25Z

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.)

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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