Hello R-devel community,
I posted a new R 4.0.1 behaviour to stack overflow
(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62327810/inconsistent-error-handling-of-function-and-s4-generics-on-r-4-0-1),
where I think it is an undesired or unexpected change in 4.0.1. Attributes of
errors seem to be lost or obscured when encountered in an S4 generic context.
An example of this being undesirable comes in shiny applications where
my_reactive (an unevaluated reactive object) returns a shiny.silent.error
attribute which is lost upon error within an S4 generic function. The lack of
this attribute causes the entire application to exit with an error (with no
stack trace available). For example, within a shiny context:
> foo <- try(nrow(my_reactive()))
> attr(foo,"condition")
<shiny.silent.error: >
Where the S4 generic returns:
> bar <- try(BiocGenerics::nrow(my_reactive()))
> attr(bar,"condition")
<simpleError in (function (cond) .Internal(C_tryCatchHelper(addr, 1L,
cond)))(structure(list(message = ""), class = c("shiny.silent.error",
"validation", "error", "condition"), stack.trace = [... lots more output here
...]: error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function
'nrow': >
>From what I can tell from the release notes of 4.0.1, this does not appear to
>be an expected breaking change so I am hesitant to update old code and shiny
>applications to account for this behaviour. Any guidance would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Matthew Carlucci
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