Title: Automatically Search Errors or Warnings
Version: 0.1.3
Description: Provides environment hooks that obtain errors and warnings which occur during the execution of code to automatically search for solutions.
URL: https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/errorist, https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/errorist/
BugReports: https://github.com/coatless-rpkg/errorist/issues
Depends: R (≥ 3.0.0)
Imports: searcher (≥ 0.0.2)
Suggests: testthat, covr, knitr, rmarkdown
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
VignetteBuilder: knitr
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-08-18 04:32:58 UTC; ronin
Author: James Balamuta ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: James Balamuta <balamut2@illinois.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-08-18 18:10:10 UTC

errorist: Automatically Search Errors or Warnings

Description

Provides environment hooks that obtain errors and warnings which occur during the execution of code to automatically search for solutions.

Author(s)

Maintainer: James Balamuta balamut2@illinois.edu (ORCID) [copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:

Enable or Disable Errorist's Automatic Search

Description

Activates or disengages the automatic look up of error or warning codes in R.

Usage

enable_errorist(
  error_search_func = getOption("errorist.warning", searcher::search_google),
  warning_search_func = getOption("errorist.warning", searcher::search_google)
)

disable_errorist()

Arguments

error_search_func, warning_search_func

The search function from searcher::searcher that should be called when an error or warning occurs. By default, searches are routed through Google.

Details

The enable_errorist() is automatically called on package start to inject handlers for warnings and errors. When the package is unloaded, disable_errorist() is called to remove warnings and errors. If you wish to disable warnings or error individually, please use either disable_error_shim() or disable_warning_shim().

Author(s)

James Joseph Balamuta

See Also

enable_error_shim(), enable_warning_shim(), disable_error_shim(), disable_warning_shim()

Examples


### Default search engine is Google

# Enable automatic search
# NB: This is done automatically on package load.
enable_errorist()

# Some code ...

# Disable automatic search
# NB: This is done automatically on package unload via "detach()"
disable_errorist()

#### Custom search engines

# Enable automatic search with custom search engines
# NB: This is done automatically on package load.
enable_errorist(error_search_func   = searcher::search_bing,
                warning_search_func = searcher::search_duckduckgo)

# Some code ...

# Disable automatic search
# NB: This is done automatically on package unload via "detach()"
disable_errorist()

Enable and Disable Warning or Error Capture

Description

Add or remove a listener to top-level task callbacks that checks for whether a new warning or error occurs and then triggers a search browser.

Usage

enable_warning_shim(
  warning_search_func = getOption("errorist.warning", searcher::search_google)
)

disable_warning_shim()

enable_error_shim(
  error_search_func = getOption("errorist.error", searcher::search_google)
)

disable_error_shim()

Arguments

error_search_func, warning_search_func

The search function from searcher::searcher that should be called when an error or warning occurs. By default, searches are routed through Google.

Details

By default, both enable_warning_shim() and enable_error_shim() functions are automatically triggered when the errorist package is loaded.

Error Shim

The error shim uses R's default handler for errors set by specifying a function for error in options().

Warning Shim

For the warning shim, a top-level task callback added to the environment via base::addTaskCallback(). This causes the warning handler to fire each time a new function call occurs in R regardless of whether it triggers an error.

Author(s)

James Joseph Balamuta

See Also

base::addTaskCallback()

Examples



# Default setup
enable_warning_shim()

# Some code ...

# Remove the shim
disable_warning_shim()

# Specify a search function
enable_warning_shim(warning_search_func = searcher::search_google)

# Some code ...

# Remove the shim
disable_warning_shim()

# Enable only the error shim
enable_error_shim()

# Some code ...

# Remove the shim
disable_error_shim()

# Specify a search function
enable_error_shim(error_search_func = searcher::search_google)

# Some code ...

# Remove the shim
disable_error_shim()