Surely this is a serious bug in your HTML generator? It should be
converting such characters to escape codes.
<> is used a lot in R printing, and it is not reasonable to expect R to
change to avoid bugs in other tools. So is [], and we don't want to add
confusion.
On Tue, 10 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Full_Name: Tom Short
> Version: 2.1.0
> OS: Win2000
> Submission from: (NULL) (68.236.159.160)
>
>
> print.condition prints out error messages enclosed in angle brackets as in:
>
>> simpleError("Sigh, yet another error...")
> <simpleError: Sigh, yet another error...>
>
> If R is used to generate HTML output (R2HTML or Rpad), then the error messages
> get hidden because browsers will skip right over the "<simpleError: Sigh, yet
> another error...>".
>
> Suggestion: remove the angle brackets or replace with square brackets or
> something else that won't confuse a browser.
--
Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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