[R] error in parse

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Dec 7 20:15:22 CET 2001


On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, kjetil halvorsen wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >
> > What's strange?: there is an error in that file on or before line 6!
>
> Thats not the error. Even after changing the file,. making it more
> reasonable, and removing some blank lines, exactly the same error
> occurs. And there is no syntax error in the file, cut and paste work
> perfectly.

The test of no syntax error is that the parser does not give an error, so
*by definition* there is a syntax error.

Might there be a non-printing (and hence invisible) character in there,
for example?  Have you done an octal dump?  Are all the quote-like
characters the ISO ones and not what Word likes to use? ....


> Kjetil Halvorsen
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, kjetil halvorsen wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to source a file defining a dataset, giving the full path.
> > > (rw1031 on windows 98)
> > >
> > > > source("c:\\kjetil\\audiometria\\data\\audiometria.R")
> > > Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 6
> > >
> > > also:
> > >
> > > > parse(file="c:\\kjetil\\audiometria\\data\\audiometria.R", n=-1)
> > > Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 6
> > >
> > > This seems very strange. Trying to read the file with data()
> > > gives the same error.
> > >
> > >
> > > Kjetil Halvorsen
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