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------_=_NextPart_000_01C388B0.D441A780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In debugging a long-running function where I occasionally call warnings() to write out any warnings that have occurred, I discovered that calling warnings() before any warnings have ever been generated causes an error: > warnings() Error in warnings() : Object "last.warning" not found The problem is that warnings() attemts to check the length of the variable 'last.warning' without first checking for its existance. This problem exists in R 1.7.1 as well as in the new 1.8.0 beta code. A simple patch fixes the problem: --- warnings.R.orig 2003-10-02 02:35:04.359451000 -0400 +++ warnings.R 2003-10-02 02:42:08.900717000 -0400 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ warnings <- function(...) { - if(!(n <- length(last.warning))) + if(!exists("last.warning") || !(n <- length(last.warning))) return() names <- names(last.warning) cat("Warning message", if(n > 1)"s", ":\n", sep="") -Greg LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this messag...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel