> What would be possible is to do like other preprocessors do, and put > comments into the source file to indicate the origin of each line: then > the parser could tell you the location in the original file, which would > be a lot more useful.
I think what you are referring to is already nicely implemented (in R/src/main/source.c lines 89 to 97), and the errors are correctly shown in my example as lines 1222 to 1223. However, these line numbers are irrelevant to the original files, as they been concatenated into one large file (I think on line 765 of R/src/scripts/INSTALL.in ). This single file is loaded into an R environment (on line 790 of INSTALL.in), which is also the region where my original error from 'R CMD INSTALL' was thrown. The loading is done by the 'tools:::makeLazyLoading' function, which loads in the single R-source file into a fresh environment for the package. I'm unsure of why a single R source file is needed in INSTALL (which limits the ability to show any offending file names and their line numbers). The functions in R/src/library/tools/R/makeLazyLoad.R could perhaps be made a bit more versatile to individually read the R source files for a package using a 'pattern="\.R$"', and throw an error from 'sys.source' displaying the file name, and other error messages from 'parse'. This is simply a feature-request suggestion, but as Gabor advised, I should really develop my functions file-by-file. +mt ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel