A more informative abort message than "aborting ..." about wishlist-for-r

[HenrikBengtsson]

I just submitted PR #16749.

[HenrikBengtsson]

PR #16749 closed; Martin Maechler updated R's abort message R devel r70288. In interactive mode, we now get:

[...] 
> Possible actions: 
> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) 
> 2: normal R exit 
> 3: exit R without saving workspace 
> 4: exit R saving workspace 
> Selection: 1
R is aborting now ...

and in non-interactive mode (including R CMD check) we get:

An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...

From the R CMD check output of the original example, it should now be a bit more clear that it is R that is aborting, e.g.

checking tests ... ERROR
Running the tests in ‘tests/devEval.R’ failed.
Last 13 lines of output:
1: .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma, d$colortype, d$maxcubesize, d$bg, d$canvas, d$fonts, NA_integer_, d$xpos, d$ypos, d$title, type, antialias, d$family)
[...]
12: tryCatch({ res <- devEval(type, name = "any", aspectRatio = 2/3, scale = 1.2, { plot(100:1) }) printf("Result: %s (%s)\n\n", sQuote(res), attr(res, "type")) devOff()}, error = function(ex) { printf("Failed: %s\n\n", sQuote(ex$message))})
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
checking for unstated dependencies in vignettes ... OK