On Tue, 6 Feb 2024, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

The SO post https://stackoverflow.com/q/77943180 tried to call globalCallingHandlers() from a function, and it failed with the error message "should not be called with handlers on the stack". A much simpler illustration of the same error comes from this line:

 try(globalCallingHandlers(warning = function(e) e))

The problem here is that try() sets an error handler, and globalCallingHandlers() sees it and aborts.

If I call globalCallingHandlers() with no arguments, I get a list of currently active global handlers. Is there also a way to get a list of active handlers, including non-global ones (like the one try() added in the line above)?

There is not. The internal stack is not safe to allow to escape to the
R level.  It would be possible to write a reflection function to
provide some information, but it would be a fair bit of work to design
and I don't think would be of enough value to justify that.

The original SO question would be better addressed to
Posit/RStudio. Someone with enough motivation might also be able to
figure out an answer by looking at the source code at
https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio.

Best,

luke



Duncan Murdoch

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