[Rd] restart

[Mark.Bravington@csiro.au]

Thanks Luke!-- a succinct and unimproveable solution.

cheers
Mark

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#-----Original Message-----
#From: Luke Tierney [mailto:luke@stat.uiowa.edu]
#Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2002 2:40 PM
#To: Mark.Bravington@csiro.au
#Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
#Subject: Re: [Rd] restart
#
#
#On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 Mark.Bravington@csiro.au wrote:
#
#> Dear group
#> 
#> I use "restart" in part of my code, in a way that's not 
#easily changed to
#> "try". 

<< snipped >>

#> 
#> The problem with changing 
#> 
#>   restart( TRUE)
#>   j <- eval( i, envir=envir)
#> 
#> into
#> 
#>   j <- try( eval( i, envir=envir))
#>   if( inherits( j, 'try-error')) <<...>>
#> 
#> is that the statement being debugged may itself be a call to 
#"try" which
#> happens to fail. 

<< snipped >>

#> 
#
#One way to handle this is to wrap the result, something like
#
#   j <- try( list(value = eval( i, envir=envir)))
#   if( inherits( j, 'try-error')) <<...>>
#   ...
#   return(j$value)
#
#luke
#
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