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R echoes integer literals incorrectly, under certain conditions (PR#13204)

2 messages · milbo at sonic.net, Duncan Murdoch

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milbo at sonic.net
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Full_Name: Stephen Milborrow
Version: R 2.8.0
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (81.159.65.46)


Under certain conditions, R 2.8.0 incorrectly echoes integer literals without
the "L" suffix.  R 2.7.2 is ok.

To reproduce, create two files as follows:
a.R containing: source("b.R", echo=TRUE)
b.R containing: x <- 1L

Now execute: Rterm --vanilla --silent <a.R
This echoes:    x <- 1
It should echo: x <- 1L

This behaviour does not occur if you source("b.R") directly from the R command
prompt, or if you use R 2.7.2.
R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base 

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Duncan Murdoch
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On 25/10/2008 10:45 AM, milbo at sonic.net wrote:
It works fine for me.  Could you try changing b.R to contain a comment, e.g.

x <- # a comment
      1L

and let us know what you see in the two cases?  I'm guessing you won't 
see the comment being echoed when you source a.R because for some reason 
your system is deparsing instead of going back to the source to read it, 
but I don't know what'll happen with b.R.

Duncan Murdoch