On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > I am trying to improve the error reporting in Sweave documents, so that if > you have a syntax error in a code chunk, it will tell you which line of your > input file contained the error. > > For example, currently you get this: > > Error: chunk 1 (label=named) > Error in parse(text = chunk) : unexpected symbol in "x <- foo bar" > Execution halted > > and I'd like errors to be more like this: > > Error: chunk 1 (label=named) > Error in parse(text = chunk, srcfile = srcfile) : > test.Rnw:9:10: unexpected symbol > 9: x <- foo bar > ^ > Execution halted > > It turns out that this requires changes that make the "expand=FALSE" option > quite hard to implement. Is anyone using it? For those who don't know it, > "expand=FALSE" means that a code chunk like > > <<echo=TRUE, keep.source=TRUE,expand=FALSE>>= > z <- 3 > <<named>> > @ > > will be displayed as > > > z <- 3 > > <<named>> > > rather than expanding the named chunk. I'd like to drop the option, so that > the default behaviour (which has always been equivalent to "expand = TRUE") > would be the only behaviour. > > Duncan Murdoch
I don't. So 1 "go ahead and drop it" vote... You may want to post this to R-Help though Duncan, as I suspect there may be more Sweave users there than here... Thanks and regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
