Patricia J. Hawkins wrote: > 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?
It's a version issue! Please update. Uwe Ligges > > 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! > ______________________________________________ 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