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Use cli to format error messages

Source: R/cnd-abort.R
local_use_cli.Rd

[Experimental]

local_use_cli() marks a package namespace or the environment of a running function with a special flag that instructs abort() to use cli to format error messages. This formatting happens lazily, at print-time, in various places:

  • When an unexpected error is displayed to the user.

  • When a captured error is printed in the console, for instance via last_error().

  • When conditionMessage() is called.

cli formats messages and bullets with indentation and width-wrapping to produce a polished display of messages.

Usage

local_use_cli(..., format = TRUE, inline = FALSE, frame = caller_env())

Arguments

...

These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.

format

Whether to use cli at print-time to format messages and bullets.

inline

[Experimental] Whether to use cli at throw-time to format the inline parts of a message. This makes it possible to use cli interpolation and formatting with abort().

frame

A package namespace or an environment of a running function.

Usage

To use cli formatting automatically in your package:

  1. Make sure run_on_load() is called from your .onLoad() hook.

  2. Call on_load(local_use_cli()) at the top level of your namespace.

It is also possible to call local_use_cli() inside a running function, in which case the flag only applies within that function.