We are having a similar issue with rpy2 and R-devel.
I would also vote for having back a C-level solution to the problem.
I cannot find an explicit explanation for the change in the SVN logs,
and traced the change to rev 61771:
Hi!
In RKWard we use R_tryEval() at a number places to run R commands. In order to
make sure that any generated warnings become visible close to the problem, we
were following up (most of) these calls with Rf_PrintWarnings().
Rf_PrintWarnings() was never available in the headers (as far as I kn