non-terminal token lacking children from utils::getParseData - R-help

Sat, May 2, 2015 8:07 AM #

Thank you Yihui for also reporting the bug here:

https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16354

and thank you Duncan for finding the issue and fixing it! I definitely
like your idea to report a summary message instead of the long text string.

Regards
Ben

I tried to reduce the offending portion as best I could to a
more-or-less minimal example (1136 bytes), which can be downloaded via:

    wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/74rgxr5x2aalr99/badstring.R

then once in R,

    > b <- parse(file = "~/badstring.R", keep.source = TRUE)
    > d <- getParseData(b, includeText = FALSE)
    > subset(d, line1 == 2L)

       line1 col1 line2 col2 id parent token terminal
    10     2    5    24    1 10     21  expr    FALSE

    > subset(d, parent == 10)

    [1] line1    col1     line2    col2     id       parent   token   
terminal
    <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
   
here is my

    > sessionInfo()

    R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
    Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
   
    locale:
     [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C             
     [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8   
     [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8  
     [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                
     [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C           
    [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C      
   
    attached base packages:
    [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

note that while it says R version 3.0.2 above, I have seen the same
behaviour under version 3.1.2 as well.

Regards
Ben

On 02/19/2015 06:34 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

/ On 19/02/2015 6:31 PM, B Tyner wrote:

/>>/ Hi,
/>>/
/>>/ I have run across a source file for which the return value
/>>/ of getParseData() includes a record having FALSE for $terminal, yet it is
/>>/ not the parent of any other tokens. Before I spend time constructing a
/>>/ reproducible example, I wanted to verify that this is in fact unexpected
/>>/ behavior (under R 3.1.2)?
/>/ Before I spend the time thinking about that, I'd like to see a
/>/ reproducible example.
/>/
/>/ Duncan Murdoch
/>/
/>