To Bill's suggestion for a stack trace on warnings:
Question: What would this do in situations where one might get, e.g. 100
warnings?

-- Bert

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:08 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Thomas Lumley
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:53 PM
> > To: rkevinbur...@charter.net
> > Cc: r-help
> > Subject: Re: [R] Stack trace?
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:35 AM,  <rkevinbur...@charter.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Currently I have a for loop executing functions and at the end I get a
> > > message like:
> > >
> > > There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)
> > >
> > > If I do what it says and type warnings(), I get 50 messages like:
> > >
> > > 2: In !is.na(x) & !is.na(rowSums(xreg)) :
> > >   longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
> > >
> > > I am not sure what function these errors are originating from. I don't
> > > think it is from any of the 'R' script that I wrote. I would like to
> see
> > > which function is being called when this error is thrown and which
> > > called that . . . and so on.
> > >
> > > I have the same problem with error messages. An error is thrown but I
> > > don't have a call stack to help trace down the problem. Is there some
> > > function or technique that I could use to help get a call stack?
> >
> > traceback() gets you a stack trace at the last error
> >
> > options(warn=2) makes warnings into errors
> >
> > options(error=recover) starts the post-mortem debugger at any error,
> > allowing you to inspect the stack interactively.
>
> And
>  options(warning.expression=quote(recover()))
> will start that same debugger at each warning.
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> >   -thomas
> >
> > --
> > Thomas Lumley
> > Professor of Biostatistics
> > University of Auckland
> >
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