[R] Very silent R

[jim holtman]

Run it without any packages loaded (--vanilla) to see if it happens.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:54 AM, khadeeja ismail <hajjja at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using R-2.13.1 (2011-07-08) on Ubuntu.
>
> I have tried options("show.error.messages"=TRUE), but no change.
>
>> options(show.error.messages)
>> options("show.error.messages")
> $show.error.messages
> [1] TRUE
>
> Here is the session info:
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   graphics  stats     utils     grDevices tcltk     base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] Rcmdr_1.6-2     car_2.0-7       survival_2.36-9 nnet_7.3-1
> [5] MASS_7.3-13
>>
>
>
> Hajja
>
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>
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>
> Hi
>
> r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 05.08.2011 15:21:34:
>
>> khadeeja ismail <hajjja at yahoo.com>
>> Odeslal: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>>
>>
>>
>> My version of R is not silent:
>>
>> > setwd("/notHere")
>> Error in base::setwd(dir) : cannot change working directory
>> > library(is notHere)
>> Error in library(notHere) : there is no package called 'notHere'
>>
>>
>> That is the exact problem.
>> If I type the above commands, R says nothing and just displays the
> prompt.
>> > setwd("/notHere")
>> >
>> > library(is notHere)
>> >
>
> R version, OS?
>
> You can try it with -vanilla switch when starting R session? This shall
> start plain R with only necessary packages and without any data.
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
>
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>> ...and it is so annoying :\
>>
>> Hajja
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>> Can you give the specific context in which you are using it.
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>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:54 AM, khadeeja ismail <hajjja at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> > Dear List,
>> >
>> > How can I get R to display error messages, for example, if I try to
>> change to a non-existent directory or try to load a library that is not
>> installed? Currently R is very silent. I did fix the problem once using
>> 'options' (show.error.messages, I think), but id doesn't seem to be
>> working any more, and R doesn't tell me if I have an error in my
> command.
>> > Please let me know how I can fix this.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Hajja
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> Jim Holtman
>> Data Munger Guru
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