Pass the error object to retain more helpful info about error source

MichaelChirico · web-flow · commit b8fbb2aaa4d2 · 2025-12-04T13:50:21.000-08:00
diff --git a/R/data.table.R b/R/data.table.R
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ replace_dot_alias = function(e) {
   )
   idx = regexpr(missing_obj_regex, err_str, perl=TRUE)
   if (idx == -1L)
-    stopf("%s", err_str, domain=NA) # Don't use stopf() directly, since err_str might have '%', #6588
+    stopf(err, domain=NA) # Pass 'err' to retain call site data (#7444); beware also #6588
   start = attr(idx, "capture.start", exact=TRUE)[ , "obj_name"]
   used = substr(
     err_str,

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ replace_dot_alias = function(e) {`
`111`	`111`	`)`
`112`	`112`	`idx = regexpr(missing_obj_regex, err_str, perl=TRUE)`
`113`	`113`	`if (idx == -1L)`
`114`		`- stopf("%s", err_str, domain=NA) # Don't use stopf() directly, since err_str might have '%', #6588`
	`114`	`+ stopf(err, domain=NA) # Pass 'err' to retain call site data (#7444); beware also #6588`
`115`	`115`	`start = attr(idx, "capture.start", exact=TRUE)[ , "obj_name"]`
`116`	`116`	`used = substr(`
`117`	`117`	`err_str,`