[R] Understanding tryCatch

[Jonathan P Daily]

tryCatch will only execute it's error function on errors. If you are 
getting warnings, you may find it helpful to set:

options(warn = 2)
?options
tryCatch(warning("!"), error = function(x) print("Error!"))
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r-help-bounces at r-project.org wrote on 03/18/2011 03:04:41 PM:

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> [R] Understanding tryCatch
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> steven mosher 
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> 03/18/2011 03:07 PM
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> I've read the help and the archives on tryCatch but I'm still stuggling
> trying to understand how it
> works exactly and how I can use it to get the result I need.
> 
> I have a data.frame of urls which point to 11 .zip files. Basically I 
use
> RCurl to get the list of
> files from a ftp and then reduce that directory dump to the 11 zip files 
I
> want to download.
> 
> Its easy enough to do that in a loop over the elements in data.frame.
> 
> The problem is that the site is very inconsistent. All 11 files will
> download, but I will get random
> warnings that the size of some of the files does not match what was
> downloaded.
> So at the end of the loop I may get 5 warnings about the file size not
> matching.
> These files, when tried a second or third time, will eventually download
> properly.
> 
> What I want to do is record which files had this download warning.
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