[R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long

William Dunlap wdunlap at tibco.com
Tue Dec 6 20:42:08 CET 2011


Or, Google for 'R catching warnings' and third entry is the excellent
  http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/debuggingR/

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of William Dunlap
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:38 AM
> To: gleynes+r at gmail.com; ROLL Josh F
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long
> 
> Look at the archives of this mailing list for a discussion
> entitled 'Stack trace?' on Nov 9-10 of this year.
> 
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gene Leynes
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:58 AM
> > To: ROLL Josh F
> > Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long
> >
> > I've had the same problem in other cases.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to catch warnings as well as errors?
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, ROLL Josh F <JRoll at lcog.org> wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > > Agreed.  But what I am trying to control is when I get a warning.  I want
> > > to do something different if a warning OR an error pop up?  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > >  ------------------------------
> > > *From:* gleynes at gmail.com [mailto:gleynes at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Gene
> > > Leynes
> > > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:27 AM
> > > *To:* ROLL Josh F
> > > *Cc:* r-help at r-project.org
> > > *Subject:* Re: [R] To Try or to TryCatch, I have tried to long
> > >
> > > I think the problem is that it's only a warning and not an error.
> > >
> > > result_<-list()
> > > for(i in 1:10){
> > >      if(inherits(try(sqrt(9-i),silent=TRUE),"try-error")){
> > >      #If sqrt fails
> > >      cat('fail',i,'\n')
> > >      result_[[i]]<-0 } else {
> > >      #If sqrt succeeds
> > >      cat('succeed',i,'\n')
> > >      result_[[i]] <- 1 }
> > > }
> > > result_
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, LCOG1 <jroll at lcog.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> So after about 4 hours struggling with Try and TryCatch I am throwing in
> > >> the
> > >> towel.  I have a more complicated function that used logspline through
> > >> iterative distributions and at some point the logspline doesnt function
> > >> correctly for some subsets but is fine with others so I need to be able to
> > >> identify when the error occurs and stop curtailing the distribution and I
> > >> think this Try or TryCatch should do the trick but I think I am missing
> > >> something here. A simple example
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> result_<-list()
> > >> for(i in 1:10){
> > >>          if(inherits(try(sqrt(9-i),silent=TRUE),"try-error")){
> > >>                #If sqrt fails
> > >>                result_[[i]]<-0 } else {
> > >>                #If sqrt succeeds
> > >>                result_[[i]] <- 1 }
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I would expect this to fail only when i > 9 but succeeds  each time.  DO i
> > >> need to specify something different where "try-error" resides?  Thanks
> > >> guys
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>  Josh
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> View this message in context:
> > >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/To-Try-or-to-TryCatch-I-have-tried-to-long-tp4165578p4165578.html
> > >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> > >>
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