R help - May 2003 - [Q] R equivalent for Splus get.message()

I'm trying to get a translation of some Splus code going.
My problem is with the S-plus get.message() function not
existing in R. Is there a replacement or alternative?

ErrorHandler.func<-function()
{
    cat("app.terminated\n");
   
cat(paste("err.fatal",get.message(),"\n",sep=""));
    dump.calls();
}
options(error=ErrorHandler.func)

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SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

Are you looking for geterrmessage()?

I think an error handler should be writing to stderr(), BTW, but normally 
the R error message will already have been written there.

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Paul Roebuck wrote:
> I'm trying to get a translation of some Splus code going.
> My problem is with the S-plus get.message() function not
> existing in R. Is there a replacement or alternative?
> 
> ErrorHandler.func<-function()
> {
>     cat("app.terminated\n");
>    
cat(paste("err.fatal",get.message(),"\n",sep=""));
>     dump.calls();
> }
> options(error=ErrorHandler.func)
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