Rdconv.pm errors while installing R
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, William D. McCoy wrote:
I have just compiled and installed R-patched on a Sparc 20 running Solaris 2.5.1. The compilation and installation went fine except for the message: Bare word found where operator expected at /usr/src/R/R-patched/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 1491, near "$txtout txt_header" (Missing operator before txt_header?) I get similar messages for lines 1390, 1405, 1420, and 1448 in Rdconv.pm. I have Perl 5, but it's old (5.003) and maybe that's the problem. I get the same message when installing packages when their docs are processed. My question is whether anything is likely to be wrong with the documentation produced this way. As I run R and read the html help pages, I don't see any obvious problem. Have others had this problem?
Yes, they have. It seems to be a bug in that version of perl. Try making it &txt_header in those lines, until you time to get Perl upgraded. As I don't have the ancient verion of perl, I can't say if the docs are incorretlye processed, but it seems likely that they are.
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