[R] determining a parent function name

Sundar Dorai-Raj sundar.dorai-raj at pdf.com
Thu May 31 21:48:10 CEST 2007


Thanks! That's the answer I was looking for.

--sundar

Ismail Onur Filiz said the following on 5/31/2007 12:23 PM:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 14:53:28 Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
>> error <- function(...) {
>>    msg <- paste(..., sep = "")
>>    if(!length(msg)) msg <- ""
>>    if(require(tcltk, quiet = TRUE)) {
>>      tt <- tktoplevel()
>>      tkwm.title(tt, "Error")
>>      tkmsg <- tktext(tt, bg = "white")
>>      tkinsert(tkmsg, "end", sprintf("Error in %s: %s", "???", msg))
>>      tkconfigure(tkmsg, state = "disabled", font = "Tahoma 12",
>>                  width = 50, height = 3)
>>      tkpack(tkmsg, side = "bottom", fill = "y")
>>    }
>>    stop(msg)
>> }
> 
> as.character(sys.call(-1)[[1]]) works for me.
> 
> Best...
> 
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