> On Dec 2, 2017, at 09:43, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think there's anything better than Bill's solution, though I imagine
> it is possible to ask for translation of the message. For example, sqrt(-1)
> currently gives a warning with English message "NaNs produced".
Another idea just occurred to me. Get the current error text as I'm expecting
it from R by generating the error in a tryCatch and then test for equality to
that string. With that, changes in R (or other packages) would be
automatically updated, and it would still be a precise test for the error I'm
wanting to confirm in my test:
tryCatch(as.data.frame(structure(1, class="foo")), error=function(e) e$message)
Capture the output of that tryCatch and test for equality.
Then, it will be robust to language changes and to changes in R or other
packages.
I'm going to implement that unless someone indicates something that I'm missing.
Thanks,
Bill
>
> I can ask to translate that into the current session language using
>
> gettext("NaNs produced", domain = "R")
>
> Figuring out the right thing for "domain" is likely a little painful: it
> depends on which package produced the message, and how.
>
> I don't know if CRAN tests would complain if you tested for equality between
> a warning message and the result of gettext(): it's still true that if the
> English warning changed, the test would fail.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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