[Bug 426360] Re: r-base stopped outputting error messages

spaetz sebastian at sspaeth.de
Wed Sep 9 09:49:19 UTC 2009


Doh, I found the issue:

in /etc/Rprofile.site you first save options in variable ow, turn off
error messages and then check for Revolution-R stuff. Later you restore
the old options by reapplying the "ow" options again. However "ow" only
contains the "warn" option but you also modify "show.error.messages"

ow <- options("warn")
options("warn"=-1,show.error.messages=FALSE)
[...]
options(ow)


I solved the issue by also saving option "show.error.message", that is by applying:

-ow <- options("warn")
+ow <- options("warn","show.error.message")

to /etc/Rprofile.site

** Summary changed:

- r-base stopped outputting error messages
+ [PATCH] r-base suppresses ALL error messages forever

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: r-base
  
  During the last 3 weeks karmic's r-base installation freaked up. I don't
  get any error messages anymore, it seems stderr (which is usually output
  to the console) is redirected somewhere weird. I don't have any personal
  customization configuration. This is quite annoying as debugging is
  impossible. It used to work like a charme in earlier versions.
  
  Reproduce: start "R" and type something nonsensical e.g. "sdfkjsdfjk".
- In older versions you get error messages, but not on the console anymore. It works if called from the cli. e.g.
+ In older versions you get error messages, but not on the console anymore. 
  
- 
- The problem must be in one of the package supplied config files. If I start R without any site and other init files with
+ The problem must be in one of the package supplied config files. If I
+ start R without any site and other init files with
  
  "R --vanilla" I get proper error messages back
  R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
  ...
  > hhh
  Error: object 'hhh' not found

** Tags added: patch

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[PATCH] r-base suppresses ALL error messages forever
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