Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk > wrote: > >> Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >>> If all your code has semicolons you could write a program that >>> puts each statement on one line based on the semicolons and >>> then passing it through R will r

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> If all your code has semicolons you could write a program that >> puts each statement on one line based on the semicolons and >> then passing it through R will reformat it in a standard way. >> See Rtidy.bat

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Mar-09 12:55:35, Paul Suckling wrote: > Dear all. > After much grief I have finally found the source of some weird > discrepancies in results generated using R. It turns out that this is > due to the way R handles multi-line expressions. Here is an example > with R version 2.8.1: > > ---

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > If all your code has semicolons you could write a program that > puts each statement on one line based on the semicolons and > then passing it through R will reformat it in a standard way. > See Rtidy.bat in the batchfiles distribution for the reformatting part: > http:/

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
If all your code has semicolons you could write a program that puts each statement on one line based on the semicolons and then passing it through R will reformat it in a standard way. See Rtidy.bat in the batchfiles distribution for the reformatting part: http://batchfiles.googlecode.com On Fri,

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
jim holtman wrote: > > >> if (1 == 1) {print (TRUE) >> > + } else {print (FALSE)} > [1] TRUE > > > so the parse knows that the initial 'if' is not complete on the single line. > ... and likewise the original code could be rewritten as f <- { a + b + c } vQ __

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Paul Suckling
I get it. Thanks everyone for the feedback. Now that I understand how it works, my comment would be that this system is dangerous since it makes it difficult to read the code and easy to make errors when typing it. I recognise that this is something so fundamental that it is unlikely to be changed

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Paul Suckling wrote: <...> > > # R-script... > > r_parse_error <- function () > { > <...> > f <- a > + b > + c; > } > > <...> > f 1 > > > As far as I am concerned f should hav

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Paul Suckling wrote: Dear all. After much grief I have finally found the source of some weird discrepancies in results generated using R. It turns out that this is due to the way R handles multi-line expressions. Here is an example with R version 2.8.1: ---

Re: [R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread jim holtman
This is a perfectly legal expression: f <- a + b + c; Type it in a the console, and it will assign a to f and then print out the values of b and c. In parsing 'f <- a' that is a complete expression. You may be confused since you think that semicolons terminate an expression; that is not t

[R] R multiline expression grief

2009-03-13 Thread Paul Suckling
Dear all. After much grief I have finally found the source of some weird discrepancies in results generated using R. It turns out that this is due to the way R handles multi-line expressions. Here is an example with R version 2.8.1: # R-script.