Please disregard. I was running an older version of R at the time. In R version 3.2.0 Patched (2015-04-19 r68205) returnValue() does work.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > In R devel rev.66393 (2014-08-15) it was possible to do this: > > trace(optim, exit = quote(str(returnValue()))) > > but returnValue() does not seem to be available any more. The above > was useful to get the output of a function when it was called deep > within another function that I have no control over. > > Has this been replaced by some other equivalent function? > > P.S. This demonstrates that it no longer works. The error message is > that it cannot find function 'returnValue`: > >> trace(optim, exit = quote(str(returnValue()))) > Tracing function "optim" in package "stats" > [1] "optim" >> arima(presidents, order = c(1, 0, 0)) > Tracing optim(init[mask], armafn, method = optim.method, hessian = > TRUE, .... on exit > Error in str(returnValue()) : could not find function "returnValue" > > > -- > Statistics & Software Consulting > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
