That's what I've discovered and it's _no_ problem! The problem, if there is one at all, is that an extension of .DAT DOES seem to be a problem (for me, at least)which was where this started and has gone few a few incarnations since.
However, that said, I bet _most_ people simply write, for example: OUTPUT D:\XYZ\ABC.ext or RUN D:\XYZ\ABC.ext unless the path\filename is being determined by a variable in the first place for a reason. I've just checked R:Syntax and, as far as I can see, nowhere does it suggest using variables in order to avoid any potential problem. All I have been trying to do is find out what has been causing the numerous unexplained crashes I get with R:Base. The biggest improvement in months, maybe a year, has been to change the extension for a file that I run from .DAT to .$$$. Most crashes now occur when I first run R:Base so that once it has started it's much more stable. However the command file that is run on start-up can also be "quit to" numerous times in a session without crashing. Writing that has just given me an idea - maybe I should "quit to" the file at the start. More testing coming up... Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Funny That You Should Mention It ... > RStyle ignores all quoted text and passes it through untouched. > > If you put files, paths into variables: > > set var vFile = 'Report.err' > > before using them in commands, you will never have a problem with > RStyle messing with them. > > Dennis McGrath > > > > --- Lawrence Lustig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know either, Steve - I had hoped that more > > > people might have > > > said something, one way or the other, so that some > > > sort of conclusion > > > could be drawn - but maybe nobody else has (noticed > > > if they have) a path > > > or file name that contains a reserved word. > > > > I've never thought to pay any attention to whether I > > was using reserved words in paths and filenames, so my > > guess is that I have probably done it at one time or > > another in the last 18 years. I've never noticed a > > problem. > > > > > (As far as I know, for R:Code/Style to recognise any > > > reserved word in > > > the path or file name it has to be the name, or its > > > abbreviation, > > > between a either one or both of a slash or period > > > and/or the line end.) > > > > As for R:Code, it would recognize the reserve word if > > it was between two non-string characters (that is, if > > it is a word by itself) and not in quotes. > > -- > > Larry > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > >
