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Error Message - Error: symbol print-name too long

3 messages · Duncan Temple Lang, Carl Anderson

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Dear All,

I write to ask for information regarding the error message:

Error: symbol print-name too long.

I am afraid that I can't include any code to help with any further diagnosis 
of the problem as the code is far too long to be of any use, and I have not 
been able to re-create the problem in shorter example codes.

I have searched the R manual and help pages and found no mention of this 
error message.

All help appreciated,

Carl A Anderson.
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You aren't giving us much to go on, so I can only
make a very wild guess.  Check that your file
doesn't have a stray ` character in it.
R will start reading from that point on and try
to make this an internal symbol.  If it doesn't
find the closing ` for too many characters,
it gives the error message you see.

I have seen this once before and that is what the cause
was - a stray ` put in by hitting the ` key rather than Esc.
Carl Anderson wrote:
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Duncan Temple Lang                duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu
Department of Statistics          work:  (530) 752-4782
371 Kerr Hall                     fax:   (530) 752-7099
One Shields Ave.
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Duncan,

Thank you for your help. I am pleased to say your 'very wild guess' was 
exactly correct. Can't believe I missed it!

Carl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duncan Temple Lang" <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu>
To: "Carl Anderson" <anderson_carl at hotmail.com>
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>; <carl.anderson at qimr.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Error Message - Error: symbol print-name too long