[Rd] Changes in error reporting in r-devel

[luke-tierney at uiowa.edu]

Its a compiled/interpreted difference. At the moment a small function
like this is only compiled on the second call. That is in flux as we
tune the JIT. But we should try to get rid of the difference. I
actually prefer seeing the more specific call b() since you can get
the larger context from traceback(), and showing b() is more
consistent with argument errors in builin calls.

Best,

luke


On Sun, 27 Nov 2016, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 27/11/2016 11:34 AM, brodie gaslam via R-devel wrote:
>> Minor issue, but the following changed as of R3.3.2 from:
>>
>>     > a <- function() b()
>>     > a()
>>     Error in a() : could not find function "b"
>> 
>> To (at least in R Under development (unstable) (2016-11-20 r71670)):
>>
>>     Error in b() : could not find function "b"
>> 
>> Notice the "Error in **b**() :" part.  The original error message seems 
>> more correct to me, although I can see how you can argue for either one.
>
> I'm not seeing that in R-devel r71694.  Could you update and try again?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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