On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Martin Maechler asked me to restate my problem. > > Compiling the file (slightly modified w.r.t. the formerly > attached file) that can be found at > http://www.geo.uni-bayreuth.de/~martin/filetransfer/xswms2d.Rd > terminates with the error message > > ******* Syntax error: mismatched or missing brackets in > /----- > ..... > \----- > > when compiled by > R CMD Rdconv -t txt xswms2d.Rd > > However, the file does not cause any error after deleting the > line > \item{a}{4} > (line 530), for example. This line is within the simple > environment > \itemize{ > \item{a}{1} % if this line or > \item{a}{2} % this line or > \item{a}{3} % this line or > \item{a}{4} % this line is deleted no error occurs > } > > Although there might be an error in my Rd code, the
There was, BTW: you had code inside an \itemize that was in no \item. > appearance (or not appearance) of the error message is > surprising, and the reason for the error is not clear > from the message. It does look like a bug, although as the FAQ asks, please don't report diagnoses, especially in the subject line. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
