[Rd] Encourage exit with nonzero error status in ?last.dump
Scott Kostyshak
skostysh at princeton.edu
Sat Jun 14 08:19:16 CEST 2014
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at princeton.edu>
>>>>>> on Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:04:36 -0400 writes:
>
> > The following example in ?dump.frames options(error =
> > quote({dump.frames(to.file = TRUE); q()}))
>
> > is useful for teaching the user how to save a frame dump
> > when R encounters an error during non-interactive
> > sessions. This command however causes an additional change
> > that on encountering an error R exits with a 0 error
> > status. Although it's just an example, it's an important
> > one as it's referenced in the 'Details' section of the
> > help file. I think it would be better to encourage exiting
> > with a nonzero error status:
>
> > options(error = quote({dump.frames(to.file = TRUE); q(status = 1)}))
>
> You are right.
> Thank you for the suggestion: it will be in next
> release.
>
> Martin Maechler,
> ETH Zurich
Thanks, Martin.
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Scott Kostyshak
Economics PhD Candidate
Princeton University
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