Message-ID: <C6B3FBE3-D53C-4F1D-8027-B1F51975334C@comcast.net>
Date: 2016-05-04T20:27:46Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: Is it possible to retrieve the last error? (not error *message*)
In-Reply-To: <CAFDcVCSGG-wpsGFQ5X93z8caC+6VapVqYrX1iA9+55NuLW_SGg@mail.gmail.com>
> On May 4, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> at the R prompt, is it possible to retrieve the last error (as in
> condition object of class "error")?
>
> I'm not asking for geterrmessage(), which only returns the error
> message (as a character string). I'm basically looking for a
> .Last.error or .Last.condition, analogously to .Last.value for values,
> which can be used when it is "too late" (not possible) to go back an
> use try()/tryCatch().
After looking at the code for the exposed `traceback`
> I'm wondering if this delivers what you expect:
.traceback()[1]
> Thanks,
>
> Henrik
>
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA