[R] Problem setting options(error=recover) in my Rprofile.site

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Marcus, Jeffrey wrote:

> I'd like to be able to set options(error=recover) in my Rprofile.site file.
> When I do this I get the message
> "Error in options(error = recover) : object "recover" not found
>
> I assume this is because the utils package (where recover and dump.frames
> are defined) has not been loaded at the time I make this call.
>
> I suppose I could explicitly do library("utils") before setting the
> "options" even though it will be loaded again when the default packages are
> loaded.

It will not be loaded again.

> Any simpler suggestions of how to get options(error=recover) set
> automatically every time I start R?

options(error=utils::recover)

> More generally, is there a way to have code executed on startup but *after*
> the default packages are loaded?

Load the default packages yourself in your startup code, by calling 
.First.sys() (and resetting it to avoid the slight overhead of subsequent 
require() calls if you want).

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