Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote:
I'm getting this error when installing packages w/ a checkout of R from a
a little bit ago (23-Aug-2004, approx 1pm eastern US time):
** help
Bareword found where operator expected at
/usr/home/jgentry/R/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 2331, near "$latexout
latex_link_trans0"
(Missing operator before latex_link_trans0?)
It isn't obvious to me what the error is, although commenting out line
2331 definitely causes the error to go away.
What version of perl?
It works correctly in the current 5.8.4 (it has installed all the CRAN
packages), but I think I have seen something similar in 5.8.0. Making
that
print $latexout &latex_link_trans0($blocks{"name"});
will probably solve it for you.
RedHat 8 is actually on 5.8.0 and is affected by this nit. Could we
fix it in the sources? Would be nice if it doesn't turn into yet
another must-upgrade-this-tool for developers.