Evidently, my R has some feature of error messages disabled. >>>>> "NG" == Norman Goodacre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NG> the following code apprantely, for some grand old reason, induces a syntax error: NG> if (seq[i] = "A") m <- trans[1,] NG> Error: syntax error in "if (seq[i] =" Where Norman gets this nice error message pointing to the exact location of the error, all I get is: > if (1=1) 5 Error: syntax error > How do I turn on more-verbose error messages? Is this an environmental issue, or a build issue? This is a debian (ubuntu breezy) build; happens even when I run R --vanilla R.version _ platform i486-pc-linux-gnu arch i486 os linux-gnu system i486, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 1.1 year 2005 month 06 day 20 language R TIA! -- Patricia J. Hawkins Hawkins Internet Applications www.hawkinsia.com ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html