On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote: > On 29 Jul 2003 at 7:53, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Uwe Ligges thought it might be an Xemacs problem, it is nit, see > below. I have run the scripts in different manners from different > places, same problem. > > Also, I don't think there is a syntax problem in the file. It is > thouroghly checked. What seems more probable, is there is a problem > with size. The complete file have 706 lines. When I omit (almost) all > the content from the > \format{ ... > \describe{ ... > ... > > part, and so reduce the file to 35 lines, the problems disappear. I > did this reduction in parts, and each time the output of the form > > \itemnormal-bracket1001bracket-normalVALUnormal-bracket1001bracket- > > appears at about the same line number, until the file is small enough > it disappears.
We've seen a similar bug before, PR#3400 (and I have seen similar problems with large .Rd files) which is why I asked about the size. Here's the answer: share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm contains $MAXLOOPS = 1000; Just increase it. -- 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-help