Dear R experts---I think I need to figure out how to stop in my error function without triggering an error again. so, I think I need the equivalent of C's exit(0) call. Here is what I mean: $ R CMD BATCH die.R and die.R is # in my .Rprofile, but for now in die.R options(error=function(e) print(traceback(sapply(sys.calls(), deparse))) ) f <- function() stop("I want do stop here") f() stop("pgm should have stopped by now in my main code\n") cat("still not stopped? yikes!\n") advice appreciated. /iaw