I implemented a Python-style dictionary for R, but did not find a good way to raise an error when a given key does not have a value in the dictionary. Calling stop is easy enough, but I would like to tell the user which key has not been found by printing the R object. Right now I have:
Rcpp::Rcout << "Key not found: ";
Rcpp::print(key); # <-- how can I get this on stderr?
Rcpp::stop("Key error!");
This prints the message to stdout, but I'd rather have it on stderr. Probably I'm just missing a function that Rcpp provides?
Here's a MWE:
library(Rcpp)
sourceCpp(code='
#include <Rcpp.h>
using namespace Rcpp;
// [[Rcpp::export]]
void test(SEXP key) {
Rcpp::print(key);
Rcpp::Rcerr << "This does not work: " << key << std::endl;
}
/*** R
test("x")
test(c(1,2,3))
*/
')