[R] Help with tryCatch

[David Winsemius]

Dr Sorkin;

You are a smart person. Why are you unable to create a working example  
that would allow testing of the code structure?

On Jan 1, 2010, at 10:27 PM, John Sorkin wrote:

> coeffs <- matrix(nrow=10, ncol=3)
> dimnames(coeffs) < -list(NULL,c("BMI","BMIsq","min"))
>
> # set row counter
> n<-0
>
> # Function to run
> testone<-function()
> {
> SampleData<-sample(1:SS,size=SS,replace=TRUE)
# a simple dataset
> result<-summary(glm(AAMTCARE~BMIEpiRevAdjc+BMIEpiRevAdjcSq+SEX+jPHI 
> +jMEDICAID+H_AGE+jMARSTAT+factor(jEDUCATION)+factor(jsmokercat) 
> +factor(jrace)+log(INCOME_C 
> +1),data=SimData[SampleData,],family=Gamma(link="log")))
> }
>
# and a simple model would be more appropriate
> # if function ran correctly, increment row counter by one and store  
> results
> # Do this 10 times

# Try this untested (for lack of a working example) code:

# Do this 10 times
while (n<10) {
  resulttry<-try(testone(),final=n<-n+1)

# Do the function ran without an error
  if (class(resulttry) == "summary.glm" ){  #test for something that  
will distinguish
#the error (of type=="list") from a valid fit (also of type == "list")
  coeffs[n,1] <- result$coefficients[2,1]
  coeffs[n,2] <- result$coefficients[3,1]
  coeffs[n,3] <-  -(coeffs[n,1])/(2*coeffs[n,2])
  print(n)
  print(coeffs)} else {   }

}

-- 
David Winsemius, MD. MPH

> while (n<10) {
>  result<-tryCatch(testone(),final=n<-n+1)
>
> # Do the function ran without an error
>  result
>  coeffs[n,1] <- result$coefficients[2,1]
>  coeffs[n,2] <- result$coefficients[3,1]
>  coeffs[n,3] <-  -(coeffs[n,1])/(2*coeffs[n,2])
>  print(n)
>  print(coeffs)
>
> # if function returned with either a warning or error do not  
> increment row counter, do not store results
> # I have no idea how to get to this code!
> # I need to know if an error code has been raised
> }