On Fri, 25-Apr-2008 at 06:12AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Note that the problem is not that you got the message, but an apparent > whitespace issue in the output. That's clearer in this version: note that > the output for reg-IO.Rout.save is shifted left one column. But I don't > trust email to transmit these things faithfully (especially after the last > two days of encoding issues). > > So the problem is most likely either the way reg-IO.Rout.save got unpacked > or your 'diff' function.
That was well-spotted. I notice that according to Emacs, reg-IO.Rout.save is a DOS text file. Can't say I've seen that before. > > You don't mention an OS, but my recollection is that you usually use Linux. > I *have* seen an error in this test on Cygwin, where the issue was the > unpacking by tar. This is Fedora 8 (32 bit). Previously, I'd used FC6 (64 bit) which had a problem unpacking the gz file. That was simply fixed by redoing it -- so much for the deterministic nature of that machine. [....] >> Do I have any cause for concern? > > Some, but with your toolset. Thanks for the hint. On the strength of it, I checked and noticed that there were, indeed, updates for make, diffutils and unzip. So I updated them and retried the installation. Everything went fine as I'm accustomed to seeing (and Emacs doesn't think it's reading DOS text files). Brian, you're a genius. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Middle minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Anon ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ 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.