(PR#3400)
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 Martin.Schlather@uni-bayreuth.de wrote:
Martin Maechler asked me to restate my problem.
Compiling the file (slightly modified w.r.t. the formerly
attached file) that can be found at
http://www.geo.uni-bayreuth.de/~martin/filetransfer/xswms2d.Rd
terminates with the error message
******* Syntax error: mismatched or missing brackets in
/-----
.....
\-----
when compiled by
R CMD Rdconv -t txt xswms2d.Rd
However, the file does not cause any error after deleting the
line
\item{a}{4}
(line 530), for example. This line is within the simple
environment
\itemize{
\item{a}{1} % if this line or
\item{a}{2} % this line or
\item{a}{3} % this line or
\item{a}{4} % this line is deleted no error occurs
}
Although there might be an error in my Rd code, the
There was, BTW: you had code inside an \itemize that was in no \item.
appearance (or not appearance) of the error message is surprising, and the reason for the error is not clear from the message.
It does look like a bug, although as the FAQ asks, please don't report diagnoses, especially in the subject line.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk 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