tshort@eprisolutions.com
2005-May-10 19:53 UTC
[Rd] wish: print.condition and html (PR#7848)
Full_Name: Tom Short Version: 2.1.0 OS: Win2000 Submission from: (NULL) (68.236.159.160) print.condition prints out error messages enclosed in angle brackets as in:> simpleError("Sigh, yet another error...")<simpleError: Sigh, yet another error...> If R is used to generate HTML output (R2HTML or Rpad), then the error messages get hidden because browsers will skip right over the "<simpleError: Sigh, yet another error...>". Suggestion: remove the angle brackets or replace with square brackets or something else that won't confuse a browser. - Tom
Surely this is a serious bug in your HTML generator? It should be converting such characters to escape codes. <> is used a lot in R printing, and it is not reasonable to expect R to change to avoid bugs in other tools. So is [], and we don't want to add confusion. On Tue, 10 May 2005 tshort@eprisolutions.com wrote:> Full_Name: Tom Short > Version: 2.1.0 > OS: Win2000 > Submission from: (NULL) (68.236.159.160) > > > print.condition prints out error messages enclosed in angle brackets as in: > >> simpleError("Sigh, yet another error...") > <simpleError: Sigh, yet another error...> > > If R is used to generate HTML output (R2HTML or Rpad), then the error messages > get hidden because browsers will skip right over the "<simpleError: Sigh, yet > another error...>". > > Suggestion: remove the angle brackets or replace with square brackets or > something else that won't confuse a browser.-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595