The parser errors show the text up to the first character that caused a problem, and not beyond that. Hence a misinterpreted "<-" would show something like Error: unexpected input in "A<-" and not, what I saw in your mail: Error: unexpected input in "A<-lm(GandW ~ Authocracy)\021" (Some things in your mail were not copy-and-pasted from R into the mailer, e.g., there was a semicolon in the input and a comma in its place in the error report, so I may be wrong here.)
E.g., > A <- lm(y ~ x) % Error: unexpected input in "A <- lm(y ~ x) %" My mailer (Outlook) shows a 021 character (control-Q) at the end of the quoted part, so my guess it that you've somehow put a control-Q in there. I can recreate this on Linux by first doing 'stty start <control-V><control-T>' to take away control-Q's usual meaning (resume output after a control-S pauses it), then entering > A <- lm(y ~ x)^Q Error: unexpected input in "A <- lm(y ~ x)" (There was a control-Q at the end of my input, made by typing control-V then control-Q.) You can get a better look at it if you use tryCatch and call deparse() on the error message, so the control characters are shown: > tryCatch(parse(text="A <- lm(y~x)^Q"), error=function(e)deparse(conditionMessage(e))) [1] "\"<text>:1:13: unexpected input\\n1: A <- lm(y~x)\\021\\n ^\"" Is there any way that you could have put stray control characters into your input? Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of Barry Rowlingson > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 5:39 AM > To: F86 > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Why do i get "Error: unexpected input in "A<-lm(GandW ~ > Authocracy, > Data)" > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:15 PM, F86 <farad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Bruno, > > > > I sitll get this message, even when iam using "," Error: unexpected input > > in "A<-lm(GandW ~ Authocracy,Data) " > > > > You're on a Mac, you say? Try googling for "R unexpected error" - Macs > do some crazy things: > > http://www.manning-sandbox.com/thread.jspa?threadID=46089 > > try it with = instead of <- > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Why-do-i-get-Error- > unexpected-input-in-A-lm-GandW-Authocracy-Data-tp4650559p4650720.html > > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
