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Tomas
Tomas

Reputation: 59477

How to show warning locations in R?

There is a handy option show.error.locations in R that would show the source file & line where the error occured. I wonder if there is something like show.warning.locations to do the same for warnings? Could be handy, for example:

> options(show.error.locations = TRUE)
> source ("data_b-rf.R")
Error in savePlot(paste(fn, "_varimp", sep = "_"), "png") (from data_b-rf.R#149) :
  can only copy from 'X11(type="*cairo")' devices
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
  input string 48 is invalid in this locale
2: In randomForest.default(m, y, ...) :
  The response has five or fewer unique values.  Are you sure you want to do regression?
> options("show.error.locations")
$show.error.locations
[1] TRUE

> options("show.error.messages")
$show.error.messages
[1] TRUE

This will only write the location of the error, but not of those warnings. Is there any way to do this in R?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3034

Answers (1)

MrFlick
MrFlick

Reputation: 206207

As far as i know there is no way to enable line numbers for warnings. But you can turn warnings into errors with options(warn=2) of course that will stop execution of a function but often if you're getting unexpected warnings it's a good idea to stop and find out why,

Upvotes: 11

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