[Rd] Is it possible to retrieve the last error? (not error *message*)

[David Winsemius]

> On May 4, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> at the R prompt, is it possible to retrieve the last error (as in
> condition object of class "error")?
> 
> I'm not asking for geterrmessage(), which only returns the error
> message (as a character string).  I'm basically looking for a
> .Last.error or .Last.condition, analogously to .Last.value for values,
> which can be used when it is "too late" (not possible) to go back an
> use try()/tryCatch().

After looking at the code for the exposed `traceback`
>  I'm wondering if this delivers what you expect:

.traceback()[1]


> Thanks,
> 
> Henrik
> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA