How to disable R's crash prompt

Thanks for your quick comment Mr. Ripley.  I'm a newbie in R so excuse me for not knowing the obvious.  Could you elaborate on what code I should look at, and what documentation I should go to?

This is my C++ code on calling embedded R (on redhat enterprise linux 4):

   char *localArgs[] = { "R", "--silent" };  // tried --slave, -f, --vanilla too
   Rf_initEmbeddedR(sizeof(localArgs)/sizeof(localArgs[0]), localArgs);

   PROTECT(load = lang2(install("source"), mkString(file.c_str())));	// file contains R code
   R_tryEval(load, R_GlobalEnv, &errorOccurred);

   PROTECT(call = lang2(install(entryPoint.c_str()), input));    // entry point is an R function defined in "file" above
   PROTECT(output = R_tryEval(call, R_GlobalEnv, &errorOccurred));

   UNPROTECT(3);


What should I do in C++ to make R non-interactive?

Thanks,
Wayne


-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 9:51 AM
To: Zhang, Wayne: IT (NYK)
Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] How to disable R's crash prompt

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Wayne.Zhang at barclayscapital.com wrote:

Dear R devel,

I have a C++ app that calls into embedded R to perform some analytic 
calculations.  When my app encounters a segmentation fault, R always 
prints the following crash prompt and asks me to enter an action:


*** caught segfault ***
address 0x8, cause 'memory not mapped'

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace



The problem is my app will be run in non-interactive mode, so there 
is no way for me to enter the action.  Is there a way to disable the

R does not do that in 'non-interactive mode'. Take a look at the 
code: that section is conditional on R_Interactive.

crash prompt and have R simply crash the whole app?  I have tried 
using "-file=/dev/null", "-slave", "-vanilla", and pretty much all 
other start options, to no avail.

They do not control if R is interactive: the front-end (yours, I 
presume since you mention embedding but do not otherwise give any 
details) does.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Wayne

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