Dear Ed from the man page of 'options': 'warning.length': sets the truncation limit for error and warning messages. A non-negative integer, with allowed values 100...8170, default 1000. 8172 (decimal) is 2000 (hex), not sure where that limitation comes from, but probably from the 1980s. Best wishes Wolfgang May/3/12 10:24 PM, Ed Siefker scripsit:: > To follow up, I found 'geterrmessage()', but it still truncates the message. > > In the documentation, it says that geterrmessage() uses the option > "warning.length" to truncate the message. > > If I could increase the value of "warning.length", this would fix my problem > but when I do that: > >> options("warning.length") > $warning.length > [1] 1000 > >> options("warning.length"=1000) >> options("warning.length"=10000) > Error in options(warning.length = 10000) : > invalid value for 'warning.length' > > > I'm stuck again, any hints? > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Ed Siefker<ebs15242 at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: >> I'm trying to read in some array data with minfi. >> Apparently I missed some arrays when fetching >> my data, so there are some lines in my targets >> that don't have actual files to read. >> >> That's not a big problem, the problem is >> when R throws an error, there are enough missing >> files that I can't read the entire error message. >> >> Are these error messages stored somewhere >> where I can get to the entire message, and >> parse it so I can get a list of the missing files? > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- Best wishes Wolfgang Wolfgang Huber EMBL http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber