error loading source file

[Manning, Michael]

Hello Tony

At present I am dumping edited code back into R using C-c C-b, as you
suggested in your last post.  However, I have formed a habit of loading the
source file via C-c C-l and would prefer to do things this way.  You are
correct, I do not like using C-c C-b because of the "slowness factor".
Please note that I have followed Jeff Mincy's instructions and sent him the
*trace-output* contents.  Shall I send it to you?  The contents are pretty
sparse.

Michael J. Manning
Information Analyst
Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd
PO Box 50-348
Porirua
New Zealand
Tel: 64 04 914 0700
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Fax: 64 04 914 0770   


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> Reply To: 	rossini at u.washington.edu
> Sent: 	Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:06 AM
> To: 	Manning, Michael
> Cc: 	'Andrew.Swan at csiro.au'; 'ESS Help'
> Subject: 	Re: error loading source file
> 
> 
> I think we should be able to correct this at some point real soon
> now...  (i.e. add a 
>         (if stupid-windows-os (replace "/" "//" string))
> type statement).
> 
> The other thought would be to not use C-c C-l.
> 
> What "use-case" are you doing to use that?  I never seem to need that
> particular function, but rather C-c C-b (i.e. load in the file into an
> Emacs buffer and dump from there).
> 
> Is it the increased slowness from the latter approach that makes you
> use the former?
> 
> best,
> -tony
> 
> >>>>> "MM" == Michael Manning <Manning> writes:
> 
>     MM> Hello Andrew I have had exactly the same drama that you appear
>     MM> to be having.  I am running pretty much exactly the same kind
>     MM> of system that you are (same version of R, same version of
>     MM> ESS, however I am running a Win95 machine), and am receiving
>     MM> the same kind of errors when I try to C-c C-l a source file.
>     MM> I have written help requests to the list a couple of times in
>     MM> the past fortnight and have not received a reply, however I
>     MM> remain hopeful :).  I guess the bug is buried somewhere in
>     MM> ESS's lisp code. It is also beyond me (for now :)) to find and
>     MM> debug the error.  I hope that this will be fixed in the next
>     MM> release of ESS.  Otherwise, we will need to go back to running
>     MM> R (and ESS) on machines with real operating systems...
> 
>     MM> Good luck
> 
>     MM> Michael J. Manning Information Analyst Institute of
>     MM> Environmental Science and Research Ltd PO Box 50-348 Porirua
>     MM> New Zealand Tel: 64 04 914 0700 D/D: 64 04 914 0744 Fax: 64 04
>     MM> 914 0770
> 
> 
>     >> ---------- From:
>     >> Andrew.Swan at csiro.au[SMTP:Andrew.Swan at csiro.au] Sent: Thursday,
>     >> September 27, 2001 9:04 AM To: bill at insightful.com;
>     >> ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: error loading source
>     >> file
>     >> 
>     >> Bill - Your solution(s) seems reasonable - but the question for
>     >> me is how to get C-c C-l to do that in ESS - having no
>     >> knowledge of how to modify the lisp code myself.
>     >> 
>     >> Regards
>     >> 
>     >> > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Dunlap
>     >> [mailto:bill at insightful.com] > Sent: Thursday, 27 September
>     >> 2001 4:57 AM > To: Andrew.Swan at csiro.au > Subject: Re: error
>     >> loading source file
>     >> > 
>     >> > 
>     >> > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 Andrew.Swan at csiro.au wrote:
>     >> > 
>     >> > > Hi - with ess-5.1.19, xemacs 21.1.9, and R1.3.1 on win2000,
>     >> > I am getting an > > error when trying to load a source file:
>     >> > >
>     >> > > Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open file `d: >
>     >> mpswa088.line.plot.R'
>     >> > >
>     >> > > The file is supposed to be `d:\tmp\swa088.line.plot.R', so
>     >> > it seems that the > > "\t" is being substituted by a tab, and
>     >> the second "\" > doesn't appear at > > all.
>     >> > >
>     >> > > Can this be fixed easily?
>     >> > 
>     >> > Use a double backslash to mean one backslash.  Otherwise \t
>     >> means tab, > \n means newline, \b means baskspace, etc.  These
>     >> are the C language > conventions.
>     >> > 
>     >> > Another solution is to use / instead of \ in paths.  They are
>     >> > generally > equivalent on Windows (they are equivalent in C
>     >> code but the DOS shell > uses / for other things).
>     >> > 
>     >> > In Splus6 we added a warning in the parser to sometimes alert
>     >> > you to potential > problems:
>     >> > 
>     >> > > file<-"d:\tmp\swa088.line.plot.R" > Warning messages: > The
>     >> initial backslash is ignored in \s -- not a > recognized escape
>     >> sequence.  > Use \\ to make a backslash
>     >> > 
>     >> > Note that is won't complain about "\t" because that is a >
>     >> recognized escape > sequence, but it catches the \s.
>     >> > 
>     >> > 
>     >> >
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