On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > To LyX developers: I think it will be much more helpful if LyX can > catch the stderr output when R fails and display the error message in > the dialog. The default error message "An error occurred while > running" is not informative.
Makes sense. You might want to open a ticket for this. It is related to (but in my opinion different) http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6826 As motivation, this has come up in a few places, for example: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8940#comment:2 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16118901/cannot-run-knitr-on-lyx-for-macbook Scott
