[Rd] Error on start

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 10 Dec 2001, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Torsten Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
>
> > r-devel from this morning says
> >
> > hothorn@www:~ > R
> >
> > R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
> > Version 1.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2001-12-09)
> >
> > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> > Type icense()' or icence()' for distribution details.
> >
> > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> > Type ontributors()' for more information.
> >
> > Type emo()' for some demos, elp()' for on-line help, or
> > elp.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> > Type ()' to quit R.
> >
> > Error: syntax error: evaluating expression 0
> > >
> >
> > however, make check passed without any warning / error.
>
> Not for me as of last night and only gnuwin32 changes seems to have
> gone in in the meantime. Some of the recent changes required a rerun
> of configure and make clean, though.

Nor me (after those changes).  *But*

Type ^Demo()' for some demos, ^Help()' for on-line help, or
^Help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
Type ^Q()' to quit R.

is wrong: there should be no ^ there, and lower case, so I think your
machine is set in a strange character encoding, which would certainly
explain the problem reading the base R file.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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