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contextstack overflow
4 messages · Gisela Sturm, Brian Ripley
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Gisela Sturm wrote:
I?m an absolute beginner in R programming?I have a really long R-code with many variables. When I run the program I always get an error at the same place called ?contextstack overflow?. Does anybody know what to do in this case? Are there so strict limitations in R? If yes, is it possible to handle it? How?
There are limits, and they are quite high -- it is far more likely that
you have an error in your R code.
In this particular case, it is saying that you have more than 50 nested
parse contexts -- that is nested if, [, [[, {, ( calls.
I find it helpful to use a syntax-aware editor (e.g. ESS) as that will
highlight these things for you via indentation patterns.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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
I am an absolute beginner in R programming? I have a really long R-code
with
many variables. When I run the program I always get an error at the same place called "contextstack overflow". Does anybody know what to do in this case? Are there so strict limitations in R? If yes, is it possible to
handle
it? How?
There are limits, and they are quite high -- it is far more likely that
you have an error in your R code.
In this particular case, it is saying that you have more than 50 nested
parse contexts -- that is nested if, [, [[, {, ( calls.
I find it helpful to use a syntax-aware editor (e.g. ESS) as that will
highlight these things for you via indentation patterns.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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 Thank you very much! I think I have more than 50 nested parse contexts. :-/ Is there a possibility to change (increase) this limit? Gisi
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Gisela Sturm wrote:
I am an absolute beginner in R programming? I have a really long R-code
with
many variables. When I run the program I always get an error at the same place called "contextstack overflow". Does anybody know what to do in this case? Are there so strict limitations in R? If yes, is it possible to
handle
it? How?
There are limits, and they are quite high -- it is far more likely that
you have an error in your R code.
In this particular case, it is saying that you have more than 50 nested
parse contexts -- that is nested if, [, [[, {, ( calls.
I find it helpful to use a syntax-aware editor (e.g. ESS) as that will
highlight these things for you via indentation patterns.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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
Thank you very much!
I think I have more than 50 nested parse contexts. :-/
Is there a possibility to change (increase) this limit?
Yes, by recompiling R, but you need to write your code in a more modular way.
Gisi
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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