[R] skip on error

[Jim Holtman]

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On Nov 8, 2011, at 5:49, Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I have a different data sets and I am doing some calculations over time,
> 
> For that every data set is split into junks based on the time stamps
> so one data set has like 10 timestamps.
> 
> There is also the case that one data set has less than 10 timestamps.
> 
> In my code I was doing the following
> 
> lapply(Datasource,analysis_for_one_data_source)
> 
> lapply(TimeFrames,analysis_for_one_data_source_and_one_time_frame)
> 
> as you can imagine there are times where the second lapply will "explode" 
> 
> 
> analysis_for_one_data_source_and_one_time_frame<- function( DataSource, TimeFrame,) {
>         return( do_analysis(DataSource,TimeFrame))
>         
> }
> 
> as you can understand this will return an error for a given Datasource that does not have a timestamp. I was looking though if I can ask from R to handle the error by continuing to the next one. So the lapply that returns and error can for example to store the error message to the list it returns and continue to the next element of the lapply list
> 
> Would that be possible in R?
> B.R
> Alex
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