[R] {lattice/grid} "Error using packet 1" and traceback
Deepayan Sarkar
deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 06:42:35 CET 2008
On 2/14/08, Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/14/08, Felix Andrews <felix at nfrac.org> wrote:
> > You can tell Lattice to stop when an error occurs, like this:
> >
> > lattice.options(panel.error="stop")
> > xyplot(1:10 ~ 1:10, panel=function(...) stop("foo"))
> > # -> Error in panel(x = 1:10, y = 1:10) : foo
> >
> > That is a little more informative than the default "panel.error",
> > because it tells you the conditionCall as well as the
> > conditionMessage.
> >
> > But unfortunately, traceback() will still not work as you expect, it
> > will say something unhelpful about tryCatch() inside print.trellis().
> > As far as I know there is no way to recover the call stack from an
> > error once it has been caught by tryCatch. (I would be very happy to
> > be proved wrong...)
>
> Right, and I've also thought that this was a bad thing. I'll see if I
> can figure out a way to restore traceback functionality. If all else
> fails, I'll just another option that disables the tryCatch mechanism.
I don't think there's a way around this when using tryCatch. The
latest lattice allows you to set
lattice.options(panel.error=NULL)
which disables the tryCatch mechanism and reverts to standard error handling.
-Deepayan
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