From luke at stat.uiowa.edu  Tue Nov 11 12:44:24 2003
From: luke at stat.uiowa.edu (Luke Tierney)
Date: Tue Nov 11 12:43:22 2003
Subject: [Rd] No traceback in r-patched
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311100853210.14925-100000@itasca.stat.uiowa.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311110543550.27596-100000@itasca2.stat.uiowa.edu>

Should be fixed in R-patched and R-devel.

Best,

luke

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Luke Tierney wrote:

> Thanks.  Seems this slipped in while fixing another issue (surprising
> it wasn't noticed until now).  Should be fixed in a day or two.
> 
> Best,
> 
> luke
> 
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Roger D. Peng wrote:
> 
> > Since it's heading towards release, I thought I'd bring this up again. 
> > I'm still not getting any traceback()'s in recent R-patched.  For 
> > example, I get:
> > 
> >  > log("a")
> > Error in log(x) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical function
> >  > traceback()
> > No traceback available
> > 
> > Or when running the examples in the traceback() help page:
> > 
> >  >      foo <- function(x) { print(1); bar(2) }
> >  >      bar <- function(x) { x + a.variable.which.does.not.exist }
> >  >      ## Don't run:
> >  >      foo(2) # gives a strange error
> > [1] 1
> > Error in bar(2) : Object "a.variable.which.does.not.exist" not found
> >  >      traceback()
> > No traceback available
> > 
> > It seems the .Traceback variable is not being created.  If I'm doing 
> > something incorrectly, I'd very much like to know.  I'm starting up with 
> > R --vanilla.
> > 
> >  > version
> >           _
> > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > arch     i686
> > os       linux-gnu
> > system   i686, linux-gnu
> > status   alpha
> > major    1
> > minor    8.1
> > year     2003
> > month    11
> > day      07
> > language R
> >  > search()
> > [1] ".GlobalEnv"      "package:methods" "package:ctest"   "package:mva"
> > [5] "package:modreg"  "package:nls"     "package:ts"      "Autoloads"
> > [9] "package:base"
> >  >
> > 
> > 
> > -roger
> > 
> > ______________________________________________
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> > 
> 
> 

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[Rd] No traceback in r-patched
Luke Tierney