Dear all.
After much grief I have finally found the source of some weird
discrepancies in results generated using R. It turns out that this is
due to the way R handles multi-line expressions. Here is an example
with R version 2.8.1:
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# R-script...
r_parse_error <- function ()
{
a <- 1;
b <- 1;
c <- 1;
d <- a + b + c;
e <- a +
b +
c;
f <- a
+ b
+ c;
cat('a',a,"\n");
cat('b',b,"\n");
cat('c',c,"\n");
cat('d',d,"\n");
cat('e',e,"\n");
cat('f',f,"\n");
}
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> r_parse_error();
a 1
b 1
c 1
d 3
e 3
f 1
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As far as I am concerned f should have the value 3.
This is causing me endless problems since case f is our house style
for breaking up expressions for readability. All our code will need to
be rechecked as a result. Is this behaviour a bug? If not, is it
possible to get R to generate a warning that several lines of an
expression are potentially being ignored, perhaps by turning on a
strict mode which requires the semi-colons?
Thank you,
Paul
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