[R] Automatically execute traceback when execution of script causes error?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am using R scripts which are running remotely. To make debugging
> easier, I would like to have the possibility to execute traceback()
> automatically when an error occurs. Is this possible?

See options 'error' and 'showErrorCalls'.  The latter is the default 
in batch use of R, and its compact traceback is found to be sufficient 
by many of us.  If 'remotely' means interactively, consider 
options(error=recover).

It might help to review section 4.2 of 'Writing R Extensions'.

>
> OS: Linux
>
> Thanks
>
> Rainer
>
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> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
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