[R] Bug in "example"

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Mar 9 21:16:52 CET 1999


On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Michael Meyer wrote:

> I think this is because the example function is looking at the first 
> column of the AnIndex file instead of the second column.  If one 
> changes,
>         file <- system.file(paste("R-ex", directory.sep, 
>                                   AnIndex[2 * i], ".R", sep = ""), pkg = pkg, 
> 
> to
> 
>         file <- system.file(paste("R-ex", directory.sep, 
>                                   AnIndex[2 * i+1], ".R", sep = ""), pkg = pkg, 
> 
> it seems to work for me. (Note the fix has [2 * i + 1])

This was discussed on another R list earlier today. We think the fix is 

            AnIndex <- scan(AnIndexF, what = c("c", "c"), quiet = TRUE,
			sep="\t")

as there are names in the index with spaces in that get this read
incorrectly. The Windows versions have had this fix for some time.

This only AFAIK applies to examples in the base package.

Brian

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