[R] Ignoring Errors in Simulations

[Sean O'Riordain]

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Ken Kelley wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I'm doing a simulation study and every so often I get an error that 
> stops the simulation. I would like to ignore the errors *and* identify 
> the particular iterations where they occurred. I have tried:
> 
> options(error = expression(NULL))
> 
> which I thought would ignore the error, but the simulation is still 
> stopped when an error occurs. I do not think try() is a good idea 
> because of the significant computational time (that I think) it would add.
> 
> Specifically I am using factanal() from the mva library and the error is:
> 
> Error in factanal(Data, factors = 1, rotation = "none") :
>     Unable to optimize from these starting value(s)
> -I am using R 1.7.1 on a Windows XP machine.
> 
> Although increasing the number of starting values attempted would 
> reduces the number or errors, I'm looking for a way that they are 
> ignored and these (likely) untrustworthy results identified.
> Thanks for any thoughts,
> Ken
> 
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