It sounds like you have some invalid expressions. Dump out the values of 'leading' and 'length(dep) - leading'. Learn some simple debugging techniques. One is to set
options(error=utils::recover) so that on the error you can use the browser to examine what the values are. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Matthieu Stigler <matthieu.stig...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi > > I am seeing a strange behavior I can't understand... doing: > >> source("/tmp/RFile.r",echo=TRUE) > Error in rep.int(c(prompt.echo, continue.echo), c(leading, length(dep) - : > invalid 'times' value >> traceback() > 3: rep.int(c(prompt.echo, continue.echo), c(leading, length(dep) - > leading)) > 2: paste(rep.int(c(prompt.echo, continue.echo), c(leading, length(dep) - > leading)), dep, sep = "", collapse = "\n") > 1: source("/tmp/RFile.r", echo = TRUE) >> > > But the file I am trying to source is very simple... see: > $ more /tmp/RFile.r > ################################################### > ### chunk number 1: > ################################################### > #line 516 "VolStocksDec2010.Rnw" > path<-"~/Dropbox/FAO/Papers/Volatility only" > pathMarkov<-"~/Dropbox/FAO/Markov Model/" > library(zoo) > > Any idea where it can come from? It works fine when echo=FALSE... I am using > R 2.12, on Ubuntu Linux 10.4 (R from CRAN), full session info below. Should > I rather send this to r-devel? > > Thanks a lot > > Matthieu > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) > Platform: i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=fr_CH.utf8 LC_COLLATE=fr_CH.utf8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=fr_CH.utf8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_CH.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] grid_2.12.1 lattice_0.19-17 Matrix_0.999375-45 > [4] nnet_7.3-1 tsDyn_0.7-40 tseries_0.10-23 > [7] tseriesChaos_0.1-11 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.