[R] stop() vs. error() ?

[Pierre Kleiber]

The thing is that functions don't really stop... they return.  So what you 
want is return()
  Cheers, Pierre

ivo welch wrote:
> 
> hi andy:  yes, I know what it does.  My suggestion would be to have a 
> different command, that is a "pure stop" without error condition (with 
> its message).  A stop and an error are really two different things.
> 
> regards, /ivo
> 
> 
> Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
>> Please do read the documentation of the functions you are trying to use.
>> The description in ?stop says:
>>
>>      'stop' stops execution of the current expression and executes an
>>      error action.
>>
>> stop() is how error is flagged in R (and S in general).  If that's not 
>> what
>> you want, try something else.  And the `something else' depends on 
>> what you
>> want, which has not been described in detail.
>>
>> Andy
>>
> 
> <snip>
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