Steve, Don't feel bad. I tried to convince the good Doctor to try R:Style for many years. When he finally did, he was sold instantly!
I don't care how good your coding skills are, running your code through R:Style will first humble you, then excite you. Have fun! Dennis McGrath -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wills, Steve Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:15 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Error 2511 ... May I offer testimony for R:Style? Despite so many of y'all having endorsed the use of R:Style, until a bit ago, I had used it no more than a handful of times, and that might be excluding my contra-opposable thumb - what is it they say about one's reach often exceeding one's grasp? I had not used it due to one or more of these reasons: A) I've been an RBase user since System V (ca. 1985) B) My stuff is SO GOOD C) Y'all's experience therefore I have discounted to 0 D) I am ignorant E) I am stupid Solution Sets: 1) A -> B 2) A -> B -> C 3) (A -> B -> C) QED (D & E) --<< HINT: I'd choose this one ... >>-- I had a problem earlier after modifying a query string from Oracle to RBv8. There wasn't really a lot to do to it. In fact, prettying up the indents and such to make it more readable took as much time as altering the Oracle-flavored portions to RBase-flavor. Pretty straight-forward, all in all. Then, when I executed the statement, I got Error 2511. TRACE indicated a problem in the first few lines, but, no matter what I did, I couldn't fix it. Finally - AFTER SOME 90 MINUTES OF FRUSTRATION AND QUESTIONING BOTH MY VISUAL AND MENTAL ACUITY - I ran it through RStyle. Well, lo' and behold, way down near the end of this rather long statement, I had inadvertently created not just one but, rather, two sets of unbalanced parentheses. Badaboom, badabing, balanced the paren's and problem solved. Some of us seem to learn (at least some) things the hard way. I'll be configuring R:Style to my preferences soonest. My Very Humble Fractional $0.02, Steve in Memphis J. Stephen Wills Program Manager, Research Informatics Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research University of Tennessee Health Science Center 62 S. Dunlap, Suite 400 Memphis, TN 38163 Office: 901-448-2389 FAX : 901-448-7133
