From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Sun Nov 27 19:20:53 2016
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:20:53 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Changes in error reporting in r-devel
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On 27/11/2016 11:34 AM, brodie gaslam via R-devel wrote:
> Minor issue, but the following changed as of R3.3.2 from:
>
>     > a <- function() b()
>     > a()
>     Error in a() : could not find function "b"
>
> To (at least in R Under development (unstable) (2016-11-20 r71670)):
>
>     Error in b() : could not find function "b"
>
> Notice the "Error in **b**() :" part.  The original error message seems more correct to me, although I can see how you can argue for either one.

I'm not seeing that in R-devel r71694.  Could you update and try again?

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Changes in error reporting in r-devel
Duncan Murdoch