Message-ID: <4A236849.5010202@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2009-06-01T05:34:01Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: 'options=utils::recover' not working in .Rprofile or within R
In-Reply-To: <9C499746-19C6-41E4-988F-66CF62265ADF@comcast.net>
David Winsemius wrote:
> On May 31, 2009, at 12:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>
>> David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>>> You are wiping out all of the default options with that approach.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Actually, I think it hid the options() function.
>>
>
> Since I was doing this at the RGui and became concerned that it
> appeared I no longer had any options, I restarted. Could I have saved
> time by just executing rm(options)?
>
Yes.
>
>>> Try (after restarting R to get the other options back to what they
>>> should be):
>>>
>>> op=options() # so you can reset back to baseline
>>> options(error=utils::recover) # do not think the "utils::" is needed
>>>
>>>
>> Not if you run it in the console, but it is needed in .Rprofile.
>>
>
> Because it might be executed before the loading of the default packages?
>
I think ?Startup documents it to do just that. I didn't check the
actual source or test it, but usually the docs are right, even if
sometimes they aren't.
Duncan Murdoch