[Rd] R CMD build fails with try(stop()) in vignette

[Luke Tierney]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Friedrich Leisch wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:28:31 -0500 (CDT),
>>>>>> Luke Tierney (LT) wrote:
>
>  > It would appear that printing the error message to stderr() is what is
>  > causing the build to fail; replace
>
>  >  	try(stop('err'))
>
>  > with
>
>  >  	cat('Error in try(stop("err")) : err\n', file = stderr())
>
>  > and I get the same failure.
>
> Yes, both R CMD check and R CMD build "analyse" the textual output
> from running R (on examples, vigenttes, ...) to locate
> problems. Reason is a chicken&egg problem: You cannot use the same R
> process which runs the code to spot all problems, because it may not
> survive until the point where you are able to spot the problem.
>
> Having errors thrown in code chunks is still in many ways an open
> problem in Sweave files, because it is hard to distinguish problems
> the user wants to show to the reader from ones that are not deliberate
> ...

Just to clarify: this means for now the recommendation would be for
authors of vignettes using try() to arrange to suppress the error
message either by adding silent=TRUE to the call or setting the
show.error.messages option to FALSE?

Best,

luke

>
>
> Best,
> Fritz
>

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