Using system.file in a tryCatch environment

[john-harrold]

I am experiencing an issue similar to this one: https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues/179

I am developing a package using devetools::load_all() to test things. I am using eval within a tryCatch environment. Part of the code I am evaluating is calling system file for the package I'm developing. If I try to evaluate the code in the tryCatch environment , the system.file command returns "". If I just eval the code eval(parse(text='system.file(package="bob", "path", "to", "bob")')) it will return the file path.

[jennybc]

Can you link to your package and make this conversation much more specific, i.e. I could experience the problem myself?

[hadley]

I've closed this issue due to lack of requested reprex. If you still care about this bug, please open a new issue with a reprex.