[R] Box Tidwell / Error Message / Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error in

[John Fox]

Dear Simon,

I think that the most likely answer is that there's an error in the command
that you wrote (which is being sourced from a file?), but it's hard to tell
from the information that you supply. It might help to do a traceback()
after the error. I doubt that the error depends on the data.

I hope this helps,
 John

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McMaster University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Simon P. Kempf
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 2:53 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Box Tidwell / Error Message / Error in 
> parse(file, n, text,prompt) : syntax error in
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> Dear R-Users,
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> I used the box.tidwell () function of the car Package. 
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> So far everything is fine. However, if the number of dummy 
> variables in the part not to be transformed (other.x formula) 
> exceeds a certain level (around 70), I receive the following 
> error message:
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> Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error in 
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> What did I miss? And how can I solve this problem?
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> I read some of the messages in the mail archives about this 
> error message, but to be honest I am rather a novice in R, I 
> did not understand them.
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> Some background information:
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> -          The data set does not have any missing values
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> -          The data set contains more than 19000 observations.
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> Thanks in advance and if you need more information about the 
> data, please let me know,
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> Simon
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