Hi Peter and Rolf, Many thanks for all!
The "bug" was just found: it is related with the package AlgDesign! (and I've been loading it from Rprofile.site already for a long long time). :-( See below: R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-22 r47680) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. Design library by Frank E Harrell Jr Type library(help='Design'), ?Overview, or ?Design.Overview') to see overall documentation. deldir 0.0-7 > aov(Sepal.Length ~ Species, data=iris) Call: aov(formula = Sepal.Length ~ Species, data = iris) Terms: Species Residuals Sum of Squares 63 39 Deg. of Freedom 2 147 Residual standard error: 0.51 Estimated effects may be unbalanced > library(AlgDesign) > aov(Sepal.Length ~ Species, data=iris) Error in parse(text = x) : unexpected symbol in "Sepal(Sepal.Length+Species)Length" I wonder it is really a small bug. Do you agree? All the best, -- ///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\ Jose Claudio Faria Estatistica - prof. Titular UESC/DCET/Brasil joseclaudio.fa...@gmail.com joseclaudio.fa...@terra.com.br ///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\ ______________________________________________ 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.